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From: "Bryan Østergaard" <kloeri@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:21:38
Message-Id: 20061031201722.GG7799@woodpecker.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees by Jakub Moc
1 On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:42:54PM +0100, Jakub Moc wrote:
2 > Fernando J. Pereda napsal(a):
3 > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 07:12:58PM +0100, Jakub Moc wrote:
4 > >> Oh well, this apparently doesn't go anywhere, slacking is just
5 > >> wonderful, maintainers should just STFU and obey the almighty slacking
6 > >> arches, security is the least of a concern and no priority, not
7 > >> answering a on bug for half a year makes lots of sense and all is fine
8 > >> and dandy. More cruft in the tree for t3h win.
9 > >
10 > > Yeah, we are so slackers that we are able to maintain a whole tree of
11 > > keywords with less than 10 persons and less than 10 machines (alpha
12 > > example).
13 > >
14 > > You probably want a shell account on a mips/alpha/... machine so you can
15 > > start helping, right?
16 >
17 > This whole frickin' debate started when vivo mentioned a bug where noone
18 > from the concerned arches gave a damn for half a year. Not even uttering
19 > a simple "we don't care, punt it" or "we have still an issue with this
20 > and are working on it".
21 >
22 > Then ciaranm came w/ his priorities junk, spb joined to fuel the flame
23 > (as always) and then you came horribly offended (for whatever weird
24 > reason) about how I'm daring to dictate some arches how they should do
25 > their job.
26 >
27 > OMG how hard is it to post one sentence on such bugs instead of playing
28 > a dead horse? Really, stop this nonsense.
29 Yes please stop your friggin nonsense when you have absolutely no idea
30 wtf you're talking about. Arch teams are doing everything they can to
31 keep up with bugs but have to take care of things according to how
32 important they are to the team in question.
33
34 Please go back to bug-wrangling and let the arch teams do their job
35 without throwing all that garbage at us all the time.
36
37 Regards,
38 Bryan Østergaard
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