-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-08-16 05:09, Greg Freemyer wrote:
"Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
On the contrary, a volunteer has the time. There is no boss saying what you have to do, so you do what has to be done, no matter what, till the job is perfect.
What planet do you live on? My volunteer hours are truly limited, but I try because if I don't no one will.
So is mine, nevertheless, I attempt perfection in the jobs I volunteer for.
I know that for a fact because most of the 20 or 30 packages I maintain will be new to the distribution with 12.2. Thus my limited time is the only reason these packages are in opensuse at all. Perfecting them is something for the upstream developing, not me the simple downstream packager.
I'm not singling on the downstream volunteer only :-)
As to evergreen, I've watched it and seen little in the way of true bug fixing done by the evergreen maintainers. They are stretched very thin and focus on backporting fixes for the supported release. So if there is a 11.4 bug that doesn't exist in 12.1, I seriously doubt the evergreen team will be trying to fix it, sorry if that doesn't match your expectations.
I understand that, but bugs are been added to 11.4 that were not present at release and no attempt is done to solve them. Those bugs will impair evergreen even more.
Of course a normal maintainer may work on a package bug during the evergreen support period, but i've seen very little of that. Almost ll the evergreen patches come from the core evergreen team.
I know. My thought in software development is that a new release should not appear till all reported bugs have been tended to and solved. If it is impossible to solve something because it needs a large rewrite of the code and that is left to the next release, then say so and do it. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 "Asparagus" GM (bombadillo)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAsyXcACgkQU92UU+smfQU1awCfYcMZ0HWJQpeVmwKbq7RH0Pq2 5b0Anjv29Qai0EzmBc7rhyoX3uUyH3jb =2BlD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org