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So much yapping on the mailing lists, and no response in the bug which |
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triggered the last rites... |
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So, Peter, do you use Boa? If you do, what niche does it fill that |
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isn't filled by anything else? There are multiple CVEs for it, is it |
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really on us to discriminate between which CVEs are valid and which |
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are not? We can't possibly hope to do that accurately in all cases. |
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On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 05:20:40PM +0000, Peter Stuge wrote: |
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> Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > > Shouldn't this process work a lot better? |
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> > |
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> > Processes tend to work better when people are contributing towards |
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> > making the processes work better rather than complaining from their |
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> > comfy armchairs that they tend to confuse with thrones. |
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> LOL! |
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> Are you honestly arguing that the Gentoo lastriting process relies on |
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> third party contributions to work or improve? That would amount to |
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> declaring Gentoo (developers) incapable of self-improvement, something |
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> that would be absolutely unacceptable to say about any one or any group |
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> of people. |
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> |
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> If you feel that Gentoo is unsustainable like that then please think |
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> about how you should react to it. |
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> Instead of writing a passive aggressive response to my demonstration |
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> of this process failure I wish that you would have drawn on your |
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> knowledge of the process and the learnings in my mail to 1. educate |
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> us on what gaps you see, if any, that caused this particular error, |
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> and maybe even 2. suggest some improvements. |
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> Expecting and/or demanding that from me because I dared describe a |
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> symptom and question the process is neither reasonable nor fair nor |
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> useful. Shooting the messenger reveals that you can't deal with the |
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> message, but that's a you problem, it's not okay to project that onto |
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> the messenger or anyone else. |
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> If you wanted to encourage me to become a Gentoo developer and (among |
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> other things) improve the lastriting process then you missed the mark, |
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> in fact your behavior consistently remains one strong reason for me |
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> to *not* become a Gentoo developer. |
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> Kind regards |
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> //Peter |
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