Comments on: An easy way to assist us http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2010/03/04/an-easy-way-to-assist-us/ Open Source - Open Knowledge Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:16:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Markos http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2010/03/04/an-easy-way-to-assist-us/comment-page-1/#comment-9255 Markos Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:50:54 +0000 http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/?p=591#comment-9255 Dead packages probably means no-maintainer or at least no *active* maintainer. Our policy is not to remove dead ( old packages, broken homepages ) if they still work and there are no serious open bugs. But as soon as a critical bug appears, if nobody cares ( developer or user ) to provide a trivial patch for it, we ( treecleaners ) will remove it :) Dead packages probably means no-maintainer or at least no *active* maintainer. Our policy is not to remove dead ( old packages, broken homepages ) if they still work and there are no serious open bugs. But as soon as a critical bug appears, if nobody cares ( developer or user ) to provide a trivial patch for it, we ( treecleaners ) will remove it :)

]]> By: Raffaello D. Di Napoli http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2010/03/04/an-easy-way-to-assist-us/comment-page-1/#comment-9254 Raffaello D. Di Napoli Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:41:30 +0000 http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/?p=591#comment-9254 Oh, I’ve filed several bugs and enhancements, some of them are still waiting even a single first comment :) (286201, 293309, 294156, 297094) That’s one reason I’m trying to help get rid of obsolete bugs. By the way, some bugs are really old, mentioning upstream web sites that don’t even exist anymore. Is there any “speedy RESOLVED WONTFIX” procedure available for those? Oh, I’ve filed several bugs and enhancements, some of them are still waiting even a single first comment :) (286201, 293309, 294156, 297094)

That’s one reason I’m trying to help get rid of obsolete bugs. By the way, some bugs are really old, mentioning upstream web sites that don’t even exist anymore. Is there any “speedy RESOLVED WONTFIX” procedure available for those?

]]> By: Markos http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2010/03/04/an-easy-way-to-assist-us/comment-page-1/#comment-9251 Markos Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:22:53 +0000 http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/?p=591#comment-9251 You dont have to be a programmer or a Linux guru to help our beloved distribution :) Even a single bug report is precious to us :) You dont have to be a programmer or a Linux guru to help our beloved distribution :) Even a single bug report is precious to us :)

]]> By: Raffaello D. Di Napoli http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2010/03/04/an-easy-way-to-assist-us/comment-page-1/#comment-9243 Raffaello D. Di Napoli Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:45:18 +0000 http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/?p=591#comment-9243 Roger that, I’m in it. I hope I’ll help decrease that forevergrowing pile of bugs. I also answered to a call for help by Gilles Dartiguelongue (although only offering my modest means) to stabilize GNOME, but I guess I wasn’t deemed useful enough. So, I’ll try this instead. I believe in Gentoo just as much as I believe Gentoo needs help. That is, a lot. Which makes me feel bad about the fact most of my programming skills (almost 10 years experience with Win32, and 5 writing PHP and JavaScript) aren’t that useful to Gentoo, and I can only offer my ebuild skills and my increasing fluency in Python. Anyway, thank you for these precious links. And your work with Gentoo, of course. Roger that, I’m in it. I hope I’ll help decrease that forevergrowing pile of bugs.

I also answered to a call for help by Gilles Dartiguelongue (although only offering my modest means) to stabilize GNOME, but I guess I wasn’t deemed useful enough.

So, I’ll try this instead.

I believe in Gentoo just as much as I believe Gentoo needs help. That is, a lot.
Which makes me feel bad about the fact most of my programming skills (almost 10 years experience with Win32, and 5 writing PHP and JavaScript) aren’t that useful to Gentoo, and I can only offer my ebuild skills and my increasing fluency in Python.

Anyway, thank you for these precious links. And your work with Gentoo, of course.

]]> By: knecht http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2010/03/04/an-easy-way-to-assist-us/comment-page-1/#comment-9199 knecht Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:05:04 +0000 http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/?p=591#comment-9199 your idea sounds good, its maybe obvious that someone can help that way, but its also important to tell that all the people that are new to gentoo (like me). I'll help if i can! your idea sounds good, its maybe obvious that someone can help that way, but its also important to tell that all the people that are new to gentoo (like me).

I’ll help if i can!

]]> By: Markos http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2010/03/04/an-easy-way-to-assist-us/comment-page-1/#comment-9197 Markos Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:42:33 +0000 http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/?p=591#comment-9197 Thanks because planet gentoo has cached the old links Thanks because planet gentoo has cached the old links

]]> By: toralf http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2010/03/04/an-easy-way-to-assist-us/comment-page-1/#comment-9192 toralf Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:17:07 +0000 http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/?p=591#comment-9192 Both links don't work while reading this article at http://planet.gentoo.org/ - however they work from here. Both links don’t work while reading this article at http://planet.gentoo.org/ – however they work from here.

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