Re: RFC: 0-day bump requests

Hans de Graaff <graaff <at> gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 02:31 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 01:16:09 +0200
> > Jeroen Roovers <jer <at> gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Disclaimer: I'm not really a package maintainer anymore.
> 
> I am, and Marius said all the things that I would have said. 

AOL here. For the few packages i maintain, i'm on all relevant channels
to be notified of updates in time. But i appreciate user feedback on
bumps, for most of the time they come with patches or complete ebuilds.
(thanks guys, you're fantastic)

I certainly want to stress the "wording" part of marius' mail.
The bump request i dealt with are "patch attached" kind of stuff. That's
not annoying, that shows the user's caring and i appreciate that very
much. Especially if the bump is critical i like timely feedback on it,
in a "hey, this has been out for some days, fixes issue X, which is
kind of important to me, could we have a bump in the tree?" kind of way.

I DO get annoyed by "package X has a bugfix release out 5 hours now, why
isn't it in the tree yet!!?" - but i don't get those bump requests...
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