On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 19:42 -0400, Nathan L. Adams wrote:
[snip]
What I see with Gentoo is this 'cathedral' being built where only those
folks who have been 'approved' or 'blessed' as being l33t enough are
allowed to review the code and actually cause a positive change when
some bug is found.
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Nathan L. Adams wrote:
| What I see with Gentoo is this 'cathedral' being built where only those
| folks who have been 'approved' or 'blessed' as being l33t enough are
| allowed to review the code and actually cause a positive change when
| some bug
This time I'll say something useful :)
Nathan, you seem to be misunderstanding open source. You get the I
can ask for features or suggest things part, but not that I can add
features or do things part. No one is stopping you, or me, or an
average joe, or George W. Bush, from peer reviewing.
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Jon Portnoy wrote:
I hate to be the bearer of bad news
Somehow, I doubt that... ;)
but that's because you don't realize
how many devs are sitting back and giggling at this thread 8)
I didn't realize you got together with other devs for giggle
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 09:22 -0400, Nathan L. Adams wrote:
And yet I see scarce few ideas on how to solve the problem. The only
other person who seems to have any are Ciaran, and what is his solution?
He's doing *code reviews* of ebuilds. *GASP* Imagine that!
And - as I told you the last time
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Dan Meltzer wrote:
This time I'll say something useful :)
Nathan, you seem to be misunderstanding open source. You get the I
can ask for features or suggest things part, but not that I can add
features or do things part. No one is stopping
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Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
And - as I told you the last time you brought this issue up - you're
more than welcome to start reviewing ebuilds and commits as well.
I'm starting to do just that. I've even asked Ciaran to review a
particular ebuild I
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 10:10 -0400, Nathan L. Adams wrote:
I'm starting to do just that. I've even asked Ciaran to review a
particular ebuild I was interested in so that I could learn from it.
That's still not *you* doing the actual work - that's you requesting
someone else to review your work -
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 11:14 -0400, Nathan L. Adams wrote:
Its a chicken and egg situation. I need to have a certain level of
expertise with ebuild syntax and conventions to do the job. So I've
asked for some help from an expert. Also, I learn things quicker and
easier by first seeing examples
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:20:00 +0200 Henrik Brix Andersen
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| We have plenty of examples in portage
...some of which are good and some of which are terrible.
| Did you read our Ebuild HOWTO [1] yet?
That's, uh, not really the best documentation around... The devmanual's
a
Nathan L. Adams wrote:
Its a chicken and egg situation. I need to have a certain level of
expertise with ebuild syntax and conventions to do the job. So I've
asked for some help from an expert. Also, I learn things quicker and
easier by first seeing examples and then seeing the
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
I've been going through the EBUILD list at random and providing lists of
things that need to be fixed before the ebuild can be considered for
inclusion. The WONTFIX resolution along with a comment asking for the
submitter to reopen with a fixed ebuild is used when problems
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:06:34 -0600 R Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| I've been going through the EBUILD list at random and providing
| lists of things that need to be fixed before the ebuild can be
| considered for inclusion. The WONTFIX resolution along with a
|
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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:06:34 -0600 R Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| wrote:
| | Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| | I've been going through the EBUILD list at random and providing
| | lists of things that need to be fixed before the ebuild
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Yeah, the lack of reopening powers is a problem. I'd rather this was
solved by a) letting any authenticated user reopen any bug and, if
necessary, b) allowing developers to lock bugs.
Agreed. I've requested this before but haven't had any response.
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 07:00:02PM -0400, Nathan L. Adams wrote:
WONTFIX refers to the bug, not the attached ebuild.
And it won't be 'fixed' unless the ebuild is improved, so WONTFIX is
fine.
Cheers,
Ferdy
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Nathan L. Adams posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on
Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:31:30 -0400:
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:03:18 -0400 Nathan L. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| No, I'm saying that having a 'team lead' throw some arbitrary stamp
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Fernando J. Pereda wrote:
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 07:00:02PM -0400, Nathan L. Adams wrote:
WONTFIX refers to the bug, not the attached ebuild.
And it won't be 'fixed' unless the ebuild is improved, so WONTFIX is
fine.
As R Hill already
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 19:23:23 -0400 Nathan L. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| As R Hill already pointed out, WONTFIX means that the *bug* will never
| be fixed. Fixing the *ebuild* would fix the bug, so WONTFIX isn't the
| right keyword. Following your logic, all bugs dealing with ebuild
| should
Nathan L. Adams wrote:
As R Hill already pointed out, WONTFIX means that the *bug* will never
be fixed. Fixing the *ebuild* would fix the bug, so WONTFIX isn't the
right keyword. Following your logic, all bugs dealing with ebuild should
be marked WONTFIX; in the ebuild's current state the bug
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Duncan wrote:
Not to sound harsh, but...
[snip the we're just volanteers argument]
All F/OSS projects (even Linux with its numerous corporate sponsors)
are, at their core, volanteer projects. Yet the good ones still manage
to build peer review into
Nathan L. Adams wrote:
[lenghty email snipped]
Since a ml isn't a place for interactive discussion, could you please
user our irc channel or jabber im?
Thank you
lu
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 07:44:56PM -0400, Nathan L. Adams wrote:
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Luca Barbato wrote:
Nathan L. Adams wrote:
Given every dev is complaining about how long is getting this thread and
how pointless is.
PLEASE AVOID REFRAINING SUCH NONSENSE
On Friday 19 August 2005 11:59 am, Simon Holm Thøgersen wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
What I'd like is a new keyword (bugzilla, not ebuild) for indicating
that a developer has done a check on an ebuild and is satisfied that
the ebuild is fine from a style perspective.
Isn't the use of
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