Re: 30+ patches in BugZilla.

["Bengt Thuree" <bengt thuree com>]

On To, 2006-05-18, 11:56, Kevin Kubasik skrev:
> On 5/17/06, Martijn Vermaat <mvermaat cs vu nl> wrote:
>> Op wo, 17-05-2006 te 16:35 +0900, schreef Bengt Thuree:
>> > HEAD should not always be perfect. The relased stable versions should
>> be
>> > more reliable. Or?
>>

>> Using a modern distributed version control system would make maintaining
>> different branches a triviality, and even Subversion would make creating
>> stable and experimental branches easier.
I agree.
Just want to clarify, that of course we should aim to not submit buggy
patches, but that Head should be expected to not be as stable as the
Stable release.
With more people visible checking, testing, and updating BugZilla with
their findings the quality of the patches should improve and be less
problem to admit them.

>
> For anyone who cares, I forwarded this to the dashboard-hackers
> mailing list, as beagle is facing a similar situation.
Same story there I think. Some very good developers that are swamped with
other things, not to mention social life as well.
Difficult to find the time to do it all.

I did suggest to Larry on IRC that if a few of the more trusted (core)
developers could also review, test and comment on the patches that should
offload quite a bit on Larrys burden.
Since I am not a core developer (have a lot of comments though :( ) I am
sure Larry is working on a plan to make patch review/acceptance a bit
smoother.

In the mean time, it sure would help if more people tested the patches,
and updated BugZilla with the result of their review and testing.

/Bengt