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From: Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:26:14
Message-Id: 449D202D.1050801@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work by James Potts
1 James Potts wrote:
2 > There is a problem here for the java folks...Technically, their
3 > migration-overlay is an overlay, and technically, that overlay is
4 > currently unofficial. Therefore, technically, if it is against the
5 > rules for projects and/or devs to use bugzilla for unofficial
6 > overlays, then it is against the rules for the java team to use
7 > bugzilla for their migration-overlay.
8 >
9 > As for the fact that the migration overlay is in the process of being
10 > moved to o.g.o, "in the process of" doesn't mean it's already been
11 > done, and until it's finished, the above statement stands.
12 >
13 > Props *and* apologies to the java team for this, but it looks like you
14 > need to move the overlay *before* you finish the migration process
15 > now.
16
17 Question is, do we care about blindly following a policy that obviously was
18 targetting at something completely different, or do we care about getting stuff
19 done?
20
21 There's nothing as unproductive as political correctness.
22
23 Just my 0.02 SFr,
24
25 --
26 Kind Regards,
27
28 Simon Stelling
29 Gentoo/AMD64 Developer
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