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On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 17:40 +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> On 9/3/06, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> > in the end |
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> > GCC-4.1 going stable is up to releng and arch teams (heck it doesn't |
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> > technically have to go stable on all arches). So who "screwed up" in |
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> > this case? |
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> Well, for a package like PHP, the package maintainers take |
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> responsibility for ensuring that there are useful and adequate |
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> announcements up front. |
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> GCC I suspect is surrounded by more confusion. Either the package |
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> maintainers or the arch teams could have made an announcement giving |
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> fair warning; alas, neither did. |
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It was in the GWN. Twice. |
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Funny enough, Donnie complained that I put the same information in two |
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GWN's and I explained that no matter, what, there would be people |
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bitching. You've proven it. There's only so many times you can tell |
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someone the *exact* same thing before it gets redundant. If you missed |
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the announcement, I'm sorry to hear it, but I'm not apologizing for your |
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perception that we didn't get the word out. We did. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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