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  • From: Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz>
  • Cc: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Spell quality checking
  • Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:09:20 +0200

Spell quality checking is a good idea.
Only we need some investor with million dollars to buy required hardware
and mainly offer full time job for dozen developers. :-)

According to http://www.sourcemage.org/SourceMage/Developers we have 50
active developers. Where are they?
How much commits, bug reports, wiki updates have they realized last
week, month, year?

We need more "active" developers who really "use" Source Mage GNU/Linux.
We all usually fix only our own problems. If we have problem with our
own box we really try to fix it and commit changes into test grimoire.
Prometheus is really great to fulfil our bugzilla but who will fix those
bugs. There are crowds of bugs created by prometheus and still with only
"New" status from 2006.

For example now, even developers grumble that there are problems with
new gnome but none commits, fixes, bug reports from them.
It is easy to create new branch with updates and ignore them.

Review of sm-commits list is also good for spell quality checking.
Sorry, but moving/integrating changes from master to xorg and vice
versa, revert reverted with reversing is impossible to review, the same
is with emails with twenty commits, impossible to review.

Even some developers don't run "sorcery system-update" and update spells
randomly and wonders there are problems.
Their still run not supported linux kernels, old glibc with strange
headers file.

One developer can't test all options in spell, can't install all
patches. There are optional patches even ignored by upstream in some
spells and one developer really can't test or support them.

We need more active developers. We need to attract them. We need to be
mentioned in Distrowatch, FreshMeat, Linux workshops/conferences, ...

--
Ladislav Hagara




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