
antarus at gentoo
Aug 20, 2012, 7:14 AM
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0 [at] gentoo> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier [at] gentoo> wrote: >> On Sunday 19 August 2012 04:41:17 Luca Barbato wrote: >>> On 8/18/12 5:31 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> > i'll probably land it later this weekend/monday. >>> >>> Would be nice having a list of bugs open so people might have a look and >>> see if there is something big left. >> >> we've been making trackers for the glibc upgrades: >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=glibc-2.16 > > While trackers are of course the right way to handle this, it is > generally best to announce timelines more than two days in advance. > > You're certainly not the only case of this problem - I've noticed a > tendency to post a tracker for some issue, watch nothing happen for > six months, and then see an announcement that the change is being > pushed through in a few days. > > Changes with a big impact should be announced on the lists well before > they are made. > > Also, while users running unstable systems are naturally going to be > at risk for unforeseen issues, this isn't an unforeseen issue. When > we know a problem exists, we generally should fix it before we commit > it. If some uncommon package breaks I think we can live with that, > but gnutls doesn't fall into that category. > > I'm not really interested in the blame game either. This isn't your > problem, or the gnutls maintainer's problem - this is Gentoo's > problem, and I hope we don't make it our user's problem for failure to > work together. I think part of Mike's point is that time and time again has proven that the way to a mans heart^H^H^H^H to get things fixed is to break them. The aforementioned example of a tracker open for months with no progress is an example of halted progress. If we waited to fix all known issues prior to launch, then we would never launch. This is very common in software development. Some features are v2 features, some bugs are not worth fixing. Some bugs we will fix with a patch post-launch; I don't see how this is any different. -A > > Rich >
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