📢 📢 📢 Today we publish an Open Letter from developers to the #Linux #community regarding shipping unfinished patches to users.
Shipping unfinished patches harms the user experience and slows down the review process in #FOSS projects to improve the patches.
You can read our Open Letter at: https://do-not-ship.it
If you agree with this letter, you can support it by signing it, see: https://do-not-ship.it/sign
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@dylanvanassche Out of curiosity, what do you think about the Gentoo approach, where some packages have versions marked "99999" and these versions are sometimes compiled e.g. from the tip of the development/main branch?
@timorl Well, Gentoo users have deep knowledge about their system. They exactly know what may have broke their setup and are able to fix it if needed. I have not so much experience with Gentoo, but I'm sure they reach out to developers to help out and fix it. It is a whole different thing when users did not opt in for it, then users get disappointed while it looks bad for the developer, only because a distro decided to ship their patches without consulting the developer first.