Why is the fedora.us (Fedora Extras) repository growing so slowly??
Chris Ricker
kaboom at gatech.edu
Tue Dec 9 13:58:37 UTC 2003
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Warren Togami wrote:
> https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=520
> For example on more than two occasions I have mentioned powernowd, which
> I believe would be extremely beneficial to any laptop owner. When used
> with the 2.6 kernel cpufreq_userspace interface, it allows dynamic CPU
> speed adjustment based upon current load. It has been tested to work
> well with Athlon and VIA processors, and should theoretically work fine
> with Intel SpeedStep too if cpufreq works with your laptop.
>
> Packages will sit forever in fedora.us QA if nobody bothers to even
> comment on them. And it is not useful to only say "It builds and runs
> fine for me." as this says nothing about spec file correctness and the
> security of the included sources. People that want to seriously
> contribute to package development and QA must show that they actively
> follow each point of the http://www.fedora.us/wiki/QAChecklist and
> consistently give good advice more than several times in order to build
> trust.
*shrug* If no one comments, no one cares, and then presumably there's not
that much demand for that package.
I think it'd be better to put efforts towards making it easier to do QA (ie,
things like a CVS tree of specs and patches), rather than removing steps
from QA.
later,
chris
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