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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:20:16 -0500 "Alex Tarkovsky" |
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> <alextarkovsky@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> | This "no QA" accusation is a complete myth. QA led by actual Gentoo |
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> | developers is indeed in place at Sunrise [1]. |
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> Did you look at *which* actual Gentoo developers are on the list? |
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> Even that aside, if a couple of hundred developers can't handle doing |
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> QA for all those maintainer-wanted ebuilds, what makes you think four |
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> people can? |
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Really now Ciaran, if you have issues with those people. Take it up |
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with them. You've yet to state a reason why it concerns you. Its no |
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better then the people who are saying that it'll be a huge QA issue |
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but they are not elaborating on it. As some are aware and some are |
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not, the basic job I do for gentoo is a QA one. I help to ensure the |
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x86 arch tree is hopefully as stable as possible. So if anything this |
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will affect me directly. I however want to see what the project can |
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do. If it does end up as a problem then it can be killed off, but |
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doing so before it has a chance to fly is part of what has been |
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keeping us from innovating as a distribution. It means we're maturing, |
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but we are still a community project and as such should be allowed to |
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fly with possibly wild idea's when it suits us. |
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As well, we are all human, as you are Ciaran. This means that we make |
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mistakes. However, what you are also asking is to NOT trust those |
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people who are qualified to be part of gentoo to be able to do the |
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work and perform it in a decent way. I will not begin to doubt any of |
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the people who have the gentoo flag as part of who they are because of |
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being human. As has been said as well, we learn more from the mistakes |
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we make then somehow having avoided it without realizing why. |
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Thirdly, I know one of the issues with one of the leaders of the |
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project, is the fact that they are not a ebuild developer. I'd like to |
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have them take the second quiz simply to prove that they have the |
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knowledge to be trusted to review the ebuilds. Course with the number |
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that he's seen I'm sure he's helped take care of things that would |
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make the rest of us go...how did they think that was ever a good idea. |
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