On Thursday 2013-12-12 21:03, Robert Schweikert wrote:
Well, people have to do it nowadays anyway, they just break Factory and have to fix it in Factory while Factory is broken while now the breakage will move into staging tree and get merged once it's fixed.
Sorry, for not expressing this correctly. Yes, people that break factory have to help fix factory. But there are more eyes on factory, more help and more "pressure" than we will get in staging tree XYZ. Thus the incentive for "everyone" (and I use everyone very loosely) to jump in and help is much greater as compared to a staging tree.
Staging and Factory have two different purposes, as I perceive it, and as such, they complement each other. Staging is merely a software aid for the developer(s) to see how something interacts *at build time* with other packages; to discover what upstream-neglected tarballs will fall apart on an automake update. But for anything that was not already run during the build process — such as UIs — you need users, and you can only get them in Factory. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org