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Andreas K. Huettel posted on Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:02:50 +0200 as excerpted: |
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>> It's a mess right now and it just doesn't look right. The bug that |
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>> deals with it was locked from public view: |
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>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383179 |
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> Is there any good reason why this bug is dev-only? Going over the |
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> contents I dont see any. |
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> (And we've been bickering in far worse ways on public bugs.) |
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> <snip> |
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> We will not hide problems We will keep our bug report database open for |
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> public view at all times; reports that users file online will |
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> immediately become visible to others. Exceptions are made when we |
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> receive security-related or developer relations information with the |
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> request not to publicize before a certain deadline. </snip> |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml |
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FWIW, thanks, to you for the quote and to Alec W. for unhiding the bug. |
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The bug hiding distressed me and I thought about bringing it here as |
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well, as the logical escalation. I didn't, but I'm glad someone did, and |
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that "the right thing"[1] was done in response. =:^) |
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As for the technical issue, IMO our patching was indeed a bit of the cart |
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before the horse, but if upstream zlib ends up taking it, in practice |
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it's a tempest in a teapot. And agree or disagree, if we don't trust the |
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dev who did it, as a practical matter as Gentoo users, we've got bigger |
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problems. =:^| |
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That said, between this (being the bug lockout way more than the |
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relatively trivial technical issue) and the changelog thing, I'm honestly |
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getting a bit worried. I'll leave it at that as that's the bit that |
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SHOULD be non-public, by the contract as well. =:^| |
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[1] Those who disagree that it was "the right thing" should really |
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consider whether that Gentoo social contract needs changed, then. |
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Because based on it, hiding that bug was and remains "the wrong thing". |
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Of course, the statement that contract makes was one of the things that |
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originally brought me, and I imagine others here, to Gentoo in the first |
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place, and IMO it'd be a sad day for Gentoo were that to change or even |
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to need changed. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |