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Alec Warner wrote: [Sun Mar 25 2007, 09:08:01PM CDT] |
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> It's acceptable to me. I'd rather see us make progress than postpone |
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> changes for months while devs bicker about changes to be made. That would |
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> not be the case if say, people had the balls to just fix things in the |
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> tree. However we have this fun system where you have to incessantly |
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> contact the maintainer in order to get anything done lest they cry and |
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> moan and run to the council because 'you touched their precious package'. |
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Just for the record, that's not supposed to be "the system". The |
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reason we give such sweeping CVS privs is precisely so that people can |
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fix broken packages. Just don't break anything when you do it. If you |
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do, then you deserve to have the council thump you. |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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