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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: extending project xml to have stuff that the project is working on and collect them as Gentoo current goals
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:01:31
Message-Id: 1176299688.8755.36.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: extending project xml to have stuff that the project is working on and collect them as Gentoo current goals by "Petteri Räty"
1 On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 00:17 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > Chris Gianelloni kirjoitti:
3 > > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 23:34 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
4 > >> Then we require this file to be updated
5 > >> monthly. What do you think?
6 > >
7 > > I think Release Engineering would kill you in our off time. This has
8 > > been brought up before, but some projects just don't have enough going
9 > > on to update on a regular cycle.
10 > >
11 >
12 > So you just change the date? I don't think we should require anything
13 > but acknowledgment that the old data still applies.
14
15 So turn it into one more mundane and pointless task that I am forced to
16 perform simply because it is a matter of policy? Having to go around
17 saying "yes, this is still correct" is rather wasteful, is it not? I
18 know I would have to do this for several projects, all of which are not
19 the sort to really have updates to publish.
20
21 --
22 Chris Gianelloni
23 Release Engineering Strategic Lead
24 Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
25 Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
26 Gentoo Foundation

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