Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please follow keywording policy
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:39:30
Message-Id: 20050309183846.426af19a@snowdrop
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please follow keywording policy by Alin Nastac
1 On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 19:38:10 +0200 Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 | >On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:50:22 +0200 Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o>
5 | >wrote:
6 | >| Not every package that I maintain is tested by me! How can I test a
7 | >| dsl driver when I have no such device!
8 | >
9 | >Simple. You don't maintain dsl drivers.
10 | >
11 | And who else would like to step up as mantainer? I don't do that for
12 | fun (at my age - 10 years of experience - you stop being amused by
13 | this sort of things), I do it because someone has to and because I
14 | love this distro.
15
16 Stick out a request on -dev. I bet someone here has a dsl device...
17
18 | >Just because *you* have a shoddy QA attitude doesn't mean the rest of
19 | >us should.
20 |
21 | Well, I will not ask you for help, that's for sure. Not after your
22 | categoric "no" on irc.
23
24 You were asking me to test an app which I don't have the hardware for.
25 What do you expect? "I can't test it but I'll mark it stable anyway"? I
26 hope no-one is still seriously taking the whole "maintainer arch" thing
27 seriously after having seen how some of the x86 developers behave...
28
29 --
30 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
31 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
32 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Please follow keywording policy Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Please follow keywording policy Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>