Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [news-item] Paludis 0.24
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 22:45:54
Message-Id: 20070505233839.3c24af77@snowflake
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [news-item] Paludis 0.24 by expose@luftgetrock.net
1 On Sun, 6 May 2007 00:30:28 +0200
2 expose@×××××××××××.net wrote:
3 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 > > No, but it affects the impact upon user experience, which is the
5 > > entire point of the process. This is, after all, about delivering
6 > > what's best for affected users.
7 > No it is not.
8 > It is about wether or not this news item would fit into the current
9 > set of rules, which it would not.
10
11 So you're saying that you're attempting to use wording technicalities
12 to prevent an improvement to the user experience?
13
14 > As in the long run, violating self-set rules will for sure not be
15 > beneficial for the "user experience".
16
17 The whole point of GLEP 42 is to improve the user experience. The whole
18 point of the word 'critical' is to avoid having GLEP 42 used for items
19 that are not relevant to most targetted users -- that is, messages like
20 "There is a new foo USE flag that enables the fancy new foo behaviour".
21
22 --
23 Ciaran McCreesh

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