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Dale posted on Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:45:34 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>> On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 19:41:20 Dale wrote: |
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>>> I have a question or two. I don't care if you, or others, reply to |
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>>> this with a answer, just think on it. A policy, rule if you will, has |
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>>> been decided on by the council. This after MUCH discussion on this |
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>>> list and the council hearing both sides of the argument. You, |
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>>> apparently on your own or with a few others, have decided to ignore |
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>>> the policy or rule. |
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>> umm, no, ive done no such thing. try again. -mike |
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> Let me see if I understand this correctly. Most devs and some users |
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> wants things put in the changelog. I don't know if it was you before |
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> but in the past someone didn't want to put when versions are removed. |
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> That person, whoever it was, said they were not going to do it because |
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> it was silly or whatever. This was taken to the council and it was |
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> decided that all changes had to be put in the changelog. Now in this |
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> thread, about the same thing from my understanding. You said "waste of |
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> time" and the policy is not "sane". |
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> So, council says it has to be done. You say you won't. Tell me where I |
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> missed the point here. |
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Mike's actually correct. |
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He didn't say he was going to defy council, rather, that he simply |
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wouldn't be removing ebuilds /at/ /all/ until either the changelog is auto- |
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generated (making the case moot) or the council changes policy. |
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That means they'll either fall to someone else to do, or will simply |
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remain there, but either way, it's quite different from directly defying |
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the council decision. |
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Gentoo devs are volunteers in any case, and as such, the system, to the |
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degree that it works at all, does so because volunteers are (within |
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reason) allowed to have their foibles and the system ultimately works |
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around them. Because everyone has their foibles and if "the system" |
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couldn't work around them, "the system" would quickly cease to be! |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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