[arch-dev-public] busy devs / offer to help on updates
Some developer seem to be so busy to have no time for updates for several months. Users start to complain about it. I've seen it for eclipse and glade. I can help out when I will find some free minutes. Please tell me if there's a certain reason to not update a package! Andy
Andreas Radke wrote:
Some developer seem to be so busy to have no time for updates for several months. Users start to complain about it. I've seen it for eclipse and glade.
Eclipse is currently stuck waiting on eclipse 1.4 compatibility issues. The calculus is that it's better for all people to have a working 3.2.x for all than to have 3.3.x broken for some. I'm working with David Rosenstrauch to get through that. It's been slow going, and I'm planning to kick something at least up to testing and to post a news item about dropping support for 1.4, at least temporarily, until we can sort this out. If you have time to look into how we build eclipse preserving JDK 1.4 compatibility (which David has confirmed is NOT preserved in our initial builds of 3.3.1) that would be a great help! Seems like no matter how much work we do on this, there's lots of dangling carrots but nobody telling us actually how to do it. - P
On 10/26/07, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
Some developer seem to be so busy to have no time for updates for several months. Users start to complain about it. I've seen it for eclipse and glade.
I can help out when I will find some free minutes. Please tell me if there's a certain reason to not update a package!
a) As Paul said, Eclipse was delayed on purpose. b) In an effort to alleviate this, if you have a major package that is out of date and don't have the time for it, PLEASE send an email to this list - it's not a bad thing if you can't get to it, but we should think about the users and try to update these things. Once again, multiple maintainers in the dashboard would help here. 8)
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote:
On 10/26/07, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
Some developer seem to be so busy to have no time for updates for several months. Users start to complain about it. I've seen it for eclipse and glade.
I can help out when I will find some free minutes. Please tell me if there's a certain reason to not update a package!
a) As Paul said, Eclipse was delayed on purpose.
b) In an effort to alleviate this, if you have a major package that is out of date and don't have the time for it, PLEASE send an email to this list - it's not a bad thing if you can't get to it, but we should think about the users and try to update these things.
Once again, multiple maintainers in the dashboard would help here. 8)
Anyone is free to update my fluxbox and imagemagick packages as I want to focus on the cleanup. Don't update my eric and gimp-devel packages. Latest eric depends on qt4 and gimp-devel is just flagged because gimp stable 2.4 has been released. You can update James packages as he's inactive. Seems that conky has be updated to work with latest kernel (there's a bug report). It works here after changing my .conkyrc though. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
On 10/26/07, Eric Belanger <belanger@astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
Don't update my eric and gimp-devel packages. Latest eric depends on qt4 and gimp-devel is just flagged because gimp stable 2.4 has been released.
This made me laugh... do you maintain eric on purpose? Can I get my own package someday?
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote:
On 10/26/07, Eric Belanger <belanger@astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
Don't update my eric and gimp-devel packages. Latest eric depends on qt4 and gimp-devel is just flagged because gimp stable 2.4 has been released.
This made me laugh... do you maintain eric on purpose?
Yes, that's one of the reason why I maintain it as I don't use it.
Can I get my own package someday?
Who knows? I wonder what an aaron package would do... -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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Aaron Griffin
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Andreas Radke
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Eric Belanger
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Paul Mattal