[Mesa-dev] [RFC] Mesa 17.3.x release problems and process improvements

[Eric Anholt]

Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org> writes:

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> On Friday, March 9, 2018 12:12:28 PM PDT Mark Janes wrote:
> [snip]
>> I've been doing this for Intel.  Developers are on the hook to fix their
>> bugs, but you can't make them do it.  They have many pressures on them,
>> and a maintainer can't make the call as to whether a rendering bug is
>> more important than day-1 vulkan conformance, for example.
>> 
>> We could heighten the transparency of what is blocking the build by
>> publicizing the authors of bisected blocking bugs to Phoronix, which
>> might get things moving.
>
> I hope you're being sarcastic here, or else I'm misunderstanding your
> proposal.  Public shaming of developers who create bugs has absolutely
> no place in the Mesa community, IMHO.  It would foster the kind of toxic
> community that none of us want to be a part of.

Agreed!
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