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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 06:44:42
Message-Id: CAJaTeTorkLqndmMdwxAcOXr6iwTMCoyAv2TqDWuad-pfwKwfZw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage by Rich Freeman
1 On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 14:18, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 >> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:49, Duncan wrote:
4 >>> Unfortunately, locking a bug to kill the whining is likely to have rather
5 >>> more negative effects than one might have anticipated.  One would think
6 >>> comment locking would be a logical enough extension to have been
7 >>> implemented by now; perhaps this is why it hasn't been.  (Full visibility
8 >>> locking is of course different, security bugs and all.)
9 >>
10 >> i don't see any negative effects so far.
11 >
12 > Well, you can probably count the 22 emails preceding this one, and the
13 > 22 that are sure to follow...
14
15 i believe the posts were going to be made regardless. if i hadn't
16 shut down the bug temporarily, then it'd have been on there instead.
17 perhaps after enough time of me saying "no", it'd have come over to
18 the list anyways. it's a crap shoot either way.
19
20 > User-rel is definitely the appropriate way to handle things like this.
21 >  There are legitimate technical disagreements over the best way to
22 > handle this situation, and I can't approve of Nikos's tendency to
23 > personalize things in the bug.  On the other hand, simply telling him
24 > to get lost is likely to just lead to more flames/etc.
25
26 i'd rather not waste more people's time, but using userrel probably
27 would have satisfied that desire better than temporarily locking the
28 bug.
29 -mike