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Am Mittwoch, 25. April 2007 schrieb Seemant Kulleen: |
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> Hi Danny, |
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> > Look at it from my POV. I only knew about the alsa version at |
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> > first. I knew it was removed already. Then i learned about mplayer. |
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> > Ok... i can live with that as long as nothing else in there. Then I |
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> > learned about transcode and I asked my fellow Council members to |
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> > cut it. |
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> I'm not sure I see that as a council issue, to be honest, but that's |
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> ok. |
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In my eyes it was a policy issue. Tree-wide policies have to pass the |
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council in one form or the other. So why shouldn't Council care here? |
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> > Besides, the affected maintainers have since then silently and |
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> > gladly agreed to remove said versions and agree that we should |
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> > stick to known methods until proper combinations of version |
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> > suffixes have been agreed on. |
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> You see, that would have been my first approach, instead of a rushed |
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> council weighing in. |
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I just wonder why several people feel attacked by this decission while |
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the affected parties have no problem with it. |
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> > Seemant: I'd like to continue to discuss the ways of council |
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> > decission on gentoo-council rather than on gentoo-dev ML. :-) |
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> Happy to do that, in the general case. In this specific case, |
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> however, it's valid here, because the entire thread revolves around a |
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> rather rash council decision (who knew such a thing was even |
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> possible?) that affects pretty much all Gentoo developers (and |
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> prospective developers). |
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Anybody who attends the regular Council meetings and/or reads their |
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logs/summaries knew that this kind of decission is possible. |
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Danny |
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Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o> |
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