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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Can we stop wasting time and bandwidth? (was: The fallacies of GLEP55)
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 07:09:52
Message-Id: 8b4c83ad0905160009l3ddc34c9v3cc37ecf18b7668@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Can we stop wasting time and bandwidth? (was: The fallacies of GLEP55) by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
2 >> Why is it that this thread has 500 replies,
3 >
4 > 500?  Try 34 posts in the fallacies of glep55 thread, total, including
5 > OP, on that thread (not this one, no references header, single post as I
6 > read this).  But who's counting?  (I wasn't, but just did.)
7 >
8 >> but Mart's maintainer-wanted thread has less than 10?
9 >
10 > I counted 23, including OP.
11 >
12 > That's not such a huge difference, made even less (just eyeballing it,
13 > perhaps even flipping the lead) if you count only the posts from Gentoo
14 > devs (yes, that would exclude me, too).
15 >
16 > Never-the-less, it's a point worth considering, statistics or not.  But,
17 > I did see indications the council is acting to come to some conclusion on
18 > it, which would put it to rest, finally.  They moved on the benchmarks,
19 > which is really the first physical movement on the thing, and seems to me
20 > to signal that they are tiring of the debate and want some concrete
21 > numbers to finally put it to rest, approval or disproval.  We'll see.
22 >
23
24 My god. This just proves that people are not willing to see the oncoming train.
25
26 The statistics are irrelevant. Go ahead and count how many posts have
27 been made about GLEP55 and 54 since they were introduced.. Now please
28 compare with how many posts have been made about maintainer-wanted.
29 Then perhaps you will see what I mean by "useless talk".
30
31 This stuff does not need to be resolved, put to rest, approved,
32 disapproved, or whatever! It needs to be kicked out till we can get
33 *BASIC* stuff fixed.
34
35 You don't fuss about the type of faucets in the bathroom when the roof
36 is falling apart do you?
37
38 --
39 ~Nirbheek Chauhan

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