Re: RFC: 0-day bump requests

Jeroen Roovers wrote:
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| 1) How do you feel when you receive an early version bump request?
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It's generally fine with me; though I would handle it differently
depending upon the situation.

For example, sometimes these version bumps require some researching or
testing for some fix or feature, and I really like to test or check out
that first by myself, in such a cases, it could take a while for me to
version bump and I also try to keep the user informed about it through
the bug report (it has worked fine for me so far). If it is a straight
bump with minimal changes, I could take care of it immediately , in
either cases, I don't care the user filing an early request ... as long
as they don't care how long it might take for me to get it into portage 

| 2) If you had your way, would you discourage users from filing early
| version bump requests?
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No. It's fine with me.

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| I know, it's not a particularly good survey, but I hope the plenty and
| diversity of your answers will shed more light on the matter. :)
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| Thank you and kind regards,
|      JeR
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| [1] In fact I regularly use the opportunity to check on the HOMEPAGE
| whether the release was security related, and I assign directly to
| security@ when that is the case (CC'ing the package's maintainers) and
| perhaps pasting ChangeLog or advisory info in a comment.

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Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org"
Gentoo Linux