[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#972613: Bug#972613: Bug#972613: ktimetracker FTBFS on 32bit: test failures

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:09:21PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> In data mercoledì 21 ottobre 2020 11:56:36 CEST, Adrian Bunk ha scritto:
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 11:36:28AM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > >...
> > > PS: please give enough time to people to work on it, instead of start
> > > filing bugs not even 24h after the new source was accepted in the
> > > archive. Let people breathe, thanks.
> > 
> > Not filing bugs can result in several porters debugging the same issue,
> > which wastes work.
> 
> Nobody said "not filing bugs". Please read again what I wrote: the
> package was accepted not even 24h ago (12h ago currently, even), so
> filing such bugs adds more work on maintainers on top of them noticing
> and possibly fixing the issues that come up.
> 
> Especially for new packages, waiting 24h or even 48h seems a reasonable
> thing. Impatience and rushing bugs does not help anyone.

Closing bugs is fast, and less work than porters having to keep track
of bugs they have looked at but are not yet permitted to report.

There is also the opposite problem that many problems that are time 
consuming to debug for maintainers are trivial to fix common issues
for porters, and that failure patterns like "FTBFS on 32bit" or
"FTBFS on big endian" or "FTBFS on architectures where char is unsigned" 
are obvious for people looking through buildd failures but not for the 
average developer.

cu
Adrian