Apparently, with regard to broken dependency notifications, there are three types of package maintainers:
(1) The I-do-not-care-and-give-a-s**t-about-the-reports type of maintainer, who ignores the reports and possibly filters the private mails into Trash.
(2) The blasphemy!-false-positives!-my-pkg-is-not-broken-wtf type of maintainer, who either flames me immediately after receiving the first report or after several weeks when the private mails still haven't stopped.
(3) The I-understand-the-problem-or-I-ask type of maintainer, who fixes a broken dependency silently, or who asks for help, and who is easy to deal with.
Obviously, I prefer type (3). There is no need to spend any time on sending acknowledgements about broken deps reports to me privately, especially not if the Rawhide report has found the same broken deps. But please think twice before having a whinge in a private reply and accusing me of false positives.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Michael Schwendt mschwendt@gmail.com wrote:
Apparently, with regard to broken dependency notifications, there are three types of package maintainers:
(1) The I-do-not-care-and-give-a-s**t-about-the-reports type of maintainer, who ignores the reports and possibly filters the private mails into Trash.
(2) The blasphemy!-false-positives!-my-pkg-is-not-broken-wtf type of maintainer, who either flames me immediately after receiving the first report or after several weeks when the private mails still haven't stopped.
(3) The I-understand-the-problem-or-I-ask type of maintainer, who fixes a broken dependency silently, or who asks for help, and who is easy to deal with.
Obviously, I prefer type (3). There is no need to spend any time on sending acknowledgements about broken deps reports to me privately, especially not if the Rawhide report has found the same broken deps. But please think twice before having a whinge in a private reply and accusing me of false positives. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
I'd like to publicly, "on list", thank you for your efforts in keeping up with the reporting. It's extremely useful and much appreciated (though I get the feeling you don't hear that often if at all).
Many thanks, -AdamM
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:53:52 -0600 Adam Miller maxamillion@fedoraproject.org wrote:
I'd like to publicly, "on list", thank you for your efforts in keeping up with the reporting. It's extremely useful and much appreciated (though I get the feeling you don't hear that often if at all).
Seconded. ;) Thanks for doing these.
Would it be of help to have a wiki page to point people at? Ie, a 'You got a broken dep email, what should you do now' type of page? I guess it might help with the type 2 people to explain why thats not likely the case for their package.
kevin
On Friday 29 of January 2010 23:57:39 Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:53:52 -0600
Adam Miller maxamillion@fedoraproject.org wrote:
I'd like to publicly, "on list", thank you for your efforts in keeping up with the reporting. It's extremely useful and much appreciated (though I get the feeling you don't hear that often if at all).
Seconded. ;) Thanks for doing these.
+1
Would it be of help to have a wiki page to point people at? Ie, a 'You got a broken dep email, what should you do now' type of page? I guess it might help with the type 2 people to explain why thats not likely the case for their package.
good idea ... last time, I've wondered what can I do if I want to choose to ignore the broken dep intentionally, knowing that a rebuild of the affected package will be done soon anyways ... finally, after not having found relevant docs, before bothering asking someone I gave up and just rebuilt the package ... and the same package got rebuilt the very next day again because of other reason
btw, IMHO it is counterproductive to put all those rebuilds into .spec changelogs - now it happens, if you have some easy package that doesn't change much but it requires a lot of libraries then you have to scroll down two pages of "rebuilt for this, rebuilt for that" messagess between real changes that really interest you, the rest is just noise
K.
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:53:52 -0600 Adam Miller maxamillion@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Michael Schwendt mschwendt@gmail.com wrote:
Apparently, with regard to broken dependency notifications, there are three types of package maintainers:
I'd like to publicly, "on list", thank you for your efforts in keeping up with the reporting. It's extremely useful and much appreciated (though I get the feeling you don't hear that often if at all).
Many thanks, -AdamM
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