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On Monday 14 April 2003 10:08 pm, Todd Wright wrote: |
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> I had a lot of trouble getting the dev team to place my unmodified |
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> hercules-2.17.1 ebuild in the portage tree, despite the fact that I am |
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> involved with the hercules development team. The gentoo developers seem |
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> to have a 'we know better than you' attitude. |
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That's a bit presumptuous, and offhand rude... |
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Ultimately the the Gentoo developer who commits the ebuild is responsible |
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for the ebuild, not you. Towards this, we appreciate ebuild submissions |
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from users and outside developers, however: every ebuild has to go through |
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a minimal QA process. |
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We're not going to immediately commit an ebuild because someone tells us |
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that they're associated with the dev team of that particular package. It |
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has to be tested just like everything else. |
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If you're not happy with that, you have options: |
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(x) you can host the ebuild on your website, and point interested parties |
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to it until we test it and put it in the tree... |
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(y) you can switch to another distribution which I can almost guarantee |
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will move slower than we do... |
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(z) you can wait patiently while we do the best we can to satisfy all of |
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these requests and maintaining quality control. |
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Remember, this is open source development. You need to check your |
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expectations a little. The world doesn't move just because you snap your |
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fingers and demand that it does. |
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Cheers, |
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Dylan Carlson |
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