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On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote: |
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> I will make it short, since i already requested it 3 times, did create a thread at gentoo-dev ML: |
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> agenda topic: Discussion and approval for following item: |
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> Adding real multilib features from current multilib-portage to currently hardmasked and testing |
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> portage-2.2* for wider testing, more eyes looking at it and hopefully more people helping improving |
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> it, so we can get a version, which most can accept for PMS and maybe next EAPI. |
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Sorry, I forgot to send an email explaining what happened on the |
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council alias as promised. The consensus was that the project wasn't |
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mature enough to go ahead. Also more generally the council's job isn't |
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discussing but deciding, approving, etc... Discussing is what should |
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happen on mailing lists. Before you can bring that to the council we |
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need to see an as-much-as-possible finalized solution with any of the |
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following if applicable: portage branch with an implementation that |
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people can try, documentation, PMS patch, devmanual patches, and a |
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team. By team I mean: who is going to maintain this in the long run if |
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necessary? A one man team is a dead team, it's only a matter of time. |
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If the amd64 team is going to be the one doing this job, and this is |
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just an example buy the way, then we need them to tell us they're OK |
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with it. |
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Now don't get me wrong. I love your project and the last thing I want |
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is to shoot it down. Look at what happened with prefix. They wanted |
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the council to approve it immediately or else... We didn't cede to |
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pressure and worked with them to make it good enough for approval. |
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Right now I don't hear anybody arguing about prefix going forward. And |
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that's exactly what I want for your project, i.e. helping you making |
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it better instead of it fading and failing in the (not so) long run. |
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I will stop now because I'm at a bus stop near Mount Fuji and I need |
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to go. I hope the other council members, especially the more |
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technically competent ones than me, will get back to you on this and |
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offer help and advice. As soon as I have a better internet connection |
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I will contact you about this. |
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Denis. |