Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror

[Mike]

On 9/13/18 7:25 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, Mike  wrote:
>
>> Picking random email.
>
>> I would like to say I'm glad we can discuss our technical differences
>> like this with both sides expressing their opinion and reasoning.
>
>> I would hope in the future we start with this path and not with
>> disciplinary action or bugs requesting the removal of commit access.
>
>> We're showing here we can bring up our points without handing out "QA
>> strikes" or some other type of confrontational action.
>
> Sorry, but I am tired of that antagonising of the QA team.
>
> There hasn't been any bug about commit access removal. And not sure what
> you mean with "QA strike", but there also wasn't any direct QA action on
> the package that triggered the current discussion. After being CCed to a
> bug, the QA team has merely pointed out to the maintainer that the
> package is not in agreement with the current policy (as it is defined in
> the devmanual).
>
> IMHO this is the QA team's purpose. Or what would you expect us to do
> instead? Remain silent if asked by another developer to evaluate an
> issue? Then we could as well disband QA.
>
> Also note that there are several remedies if there is disagreement
> between a maintainer and QA, like asking QA for an exception, appealing
> to the council, or changing the policy in question.
>
> Ulrich
>

I'm sorry you feel I am antagonizing QA. I've never had a problem with
QA, personally.

And I apologize for writing that commit rights were requested to be
removed.  My mistake, bugzilla access rights were asked to be removed.

I actually thought I was complimenting our process. Seeing people
discuss their technical differences.

I'm not a fan of more and more and more regulation that I see.  Sorry if
you don't like that opinion.

And by "QA strike", I am referring to the policy that was posted and
then rescinded.

But, this is all off-topic of this thread.