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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@g.o>
Cc: Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>, comrel@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:43:42
Message-Id: 68FA070A-985B-40DE-BBF2-7CAADE664F3C@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy by Michael Sterrett
1 Dnia 17 lutego 2016 08:52:31 CET, Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@g.o> napisał(a):
2 >On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
3 >wrote:
4 >
5 >> The games team was pretty much formed of two kinds of developers back
6 >then. One kind was retired developers, the other kind was developers
7 >who did what they cared about and ignored everything and everyone else.
8 >Bugs, join requests, complaints, all went ignored and games team kept
9 >silent claim to games in gentoo.
10 >
11 >False and slanderous.
12 >
13 >> So the first Council case against games team was that they did not
14 >accept any new members. Or rather, silently ignored join requests. They
15 >also ignored inquiries wrt the case and the Council.
16 >
17 >Also false.
18 >
19 >> The result was that the Council set up someone external to take care
20 >of inviting new members, and electing new team lead afterwards. As it
21 >could be predicted, nobody wanted to join, or rather be forced into the
22 >team they weren't welcome in.
23 >
24 >Speculative and false.
25 >
26 >> Then the case against policies started. The first abolished myth was
27 >games team sole claim to games in gentoo. Where Council pretty much
28 >only confirmed that they have no right for that and everyone can
29 >maintain game ebuilds without having games team approval or
30 >co-maintenance.
31 >
32 >Making things up.
33 >
34 >
35 >> During the whole process, I don't recall a single reply from games
36 >team member.
37 >
38 >Well, here's at least one.
39 >
40 >However, I'm not sure why anyone would reply to your drama, slander,
41 >and lies so I'm not surprised that's been your experience.
42
43 Nice to hear from you. Please don't expect me to write things I didn't know about.
44
45 So maybe games team did reply. To the people that were worthy replying to. Did this group include the Council or QA team?
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47 As I see it, this only adds to your case. Ignoring messages is inappropriate at least. Ignoring them in order to stall others from doing their Gentoo work is more serious.
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52 Best regards,
53 Michał Górny (by phone)