Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

[Fernando J. Pereda]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:25:11AM -0500, Caleb Tennis wrote:
> > Why taking it against arch teams? How is that different from
> > "certain maintainer not taking care of a bug that holds
> > stabilization of certain package by some time measured in months" ?
> > I'll tell you my answer: 'no difference at all'.
>
> You are right, there's not much difference.  However, I brought up the
> topic because I felt like this particular situation was a bit of a
> problem that needed to be addressed.  Yours is also one that
> can/should potentially be addressed, and I advise you to recommend the
> council discuss it as well.

Well, while discussing what you brought up, they should _also_ consider
what I said as part of the same (so-called) problem.

> My goal wasn't to point fingers or to call anyone lazy.  My goal was
> to address that if development in this certain area has stagnated, how
> can those of us who it affects continue to move forward?  This is
> simply an area that is "gray" and needs to be discussed.  There are
> many other gray areas that need to be discussed too.
>
> I understand we all have real lives and are volunteers.  But if there
> are areas that we are responsible for and we aren't able to meet the
> needs/demands of the other developers in those areas, it's only fair
> to let them continue moving forward.
>
> I never even mentioned any specific arch in my original request, nor
> did I call any developer out.  So please, nobody needs to take this
> personally.

I didn't take it personally myself, honestly, I couldn't care less.

Wonder why there is almost no non-mainstream arch team people
contributing to this thread?

- ferdy

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