Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-12 Thread Jakub Moc
> it does say make it an attachment if it's too long, but how long > is too long? 8K characters (and bugzilla will actually send you to places where the sun doesn't shine if you try to post something that exceeds this limit). -- Best regards, Jakub Moc mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-11 Thread Ryan Hill
Jeroen Roovers wrote: On a minor note, I'd also like to see bug reporters use canonical package names in bug descriptions, including the category (and preferably the specific version, not some >=foo-3*!!!one, not to mention specifying no version at all). Including the category means arch devs won

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-11 Thread Ryan Hill
Duncan wrote: Matti Bickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:59:51 +0200: Thomas Cort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why do arch testers need to post `emerge --info` if everything works? Shouldn't we be able to trust that they have sane CFLAGS,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-11 Thread Thomas Cort
On 11 Aug 2006 00:00:00 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer) wrote: > Tach Jeroen, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID) > > Jeroen Roovers schrieb: > > One solution might be to open your own AT bug, make the stabilisation > > bug depend on it, and use the AT b

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-11 Thread Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer
Tach Jeroen, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID) Jeroen Roovers schrieb: > One solution might be to open your own AT bug, make the stabilisation > bug depend on it, and use the AT bug to have ATs post their `emerge > info`. Then, when testing and stabilisation is finished for y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-11 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:56:18 + (UTC) "Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even back before it became the "in" thing, I was posting emerge > --info as attachments, because it simply fit the bill -- bugzy /says/ > to put long stuff as attachments. I never did quite understand why > all that ad

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-11 Thread Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer
Tach Jeroen, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID) Jeroen Roovers schrieb: > Inlining emerge info in comments bloats the e-mail message to roughly > 2.5 times the normal size. I could have spoken out to get AT comments > banned altogether or to urge arches with AT teams to find a

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-11 Thread Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer
Tach Matti, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID) Matti Bickel schrieb: > Once there was the idea of putting AT testing system specs somewhere, so > arch devs could actually see what we're running. Is this still needed or > is the number of ATs small enough to keep that in head-R

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-11 Thread Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer
Tach Jeroen, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID) Jeroen Roovers schrieb: > I propose the `emerge --info` included in arch testers' comments on > stabilisation bugs should rather be posted as attachments. The AT > comments clog up the bugs and are usually not interesting at all

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-10 Thread Duncan
Matti Bickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:59:51 +0200: > Thomas Cort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Why do arch testers need to post `emerge --info` if everything works? >> Shouldn't we be able to trust that they have sane CFLAGS, proper >>