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On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 06:01 +0100, Steve Long wrote: |
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> Stephen Bennett wrote: |
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> > Not everyone sees that as a reason not to use a potentially useful |
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> > piece of software. We're not debian. |
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> Could you clarify whether this is indeed a Gentoo QA issue, or in fact a |
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> licensing issue? If the latter case, this discussion should prob'y go to |
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> the new -project ml if and when, or indeed the user forums. |
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The "problem" with skype is really a problem with our policy. The |
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policy is really designed for open source software which we can actually |
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"fix" when we find a problem. With the closed-source stuff, our policy |
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should be a bit more lax since we're at the mercy of the upstream. |
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Also, remember that our policy says that 30 days is *suggested* before |
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stabilization. The maintainer has the authority to ask for |
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stabilization sooner, even the same day the package is put into the |
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tree, if there is sufficient reason for doing so. |
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> As for potentially useful, so was Internet Explorer, last time I looked at |
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> what you could do with its Object Model. I still ain't voting to bring it |
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> to Gentoo.. ;) |
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Please refrain from these kinds of "arguments" that have no technical |
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bearing. Internet Explorer doesn't even *run* on Gentoo. If it did, it |
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would likely be in the tree since quite a few people would likely use |
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it, even if just for testing. I know that if I were able to test things |
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on IE from Linux without having to fire up VMware that I would be quite |
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happy. |
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