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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFD: new global USE flag gtk3
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 03:02:21
Message-Id: 20140224040152.2d7229d9@TOMWIJ-GENTOO
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFD: new global USE flag gtk3 by Peter Stuge
1 On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 03:16:44 +0100
2 Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote:
3
4 > Tom Wijsman wrote:
5 > > > > > You need to learn to respect what you don't know that you
6 > > > > > don't know.
7 > > > >
8 > > > > Or you apply knowledge codification and mark it as experimental.
9 > > >
10 > > > No, that's what you *know* that you don't know.
11 > >
12 > > Exactly, which effectively keeps us away from unknown unknowns;
13 >
14 > I'm afraid that's utter nonsense.
15
16 It is as much nonsense as your example that doesn't work out for that.
17
18 > I should have known better than to try to tell you something.
19
20 Communication with all the parties, looking into history cases, looking
21 into other cases and more was done by the QA team; if there is still an
22 unknown unknown, it is due to the lack of knowledge codification.
23
24 It is what brought the QA team to a slow start, as there were barely
25 documents available besides a GLEP and a small set of documentation;
26 this is noticeable in other areas of our distribution as well, your
27 example demonstrates the importance of knowledge codification here.
28
29 Marking it as experimental keeps everyone happy.
30
31 --
32 With kind regards,
33
34 Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
35 Gentoo Developer
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