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Monday 17 Oct 2016 09:23:09, Michał Górny wrote : |
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> Hello, everyone. |
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> I'd like to point out a major problem in Gentoo: there's a fair number |
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> of developers who add various local workarounds to problems they meet |
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> and don't bother to report a bug. Worst than that, this applies not |
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> only for upstream problems but also to Gentoo eclass/ebuild-related |
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> issues. |
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> --8<--snip--8<--snip--8<--snip--8<--snip--8<-- |
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> Therefore, I'd like to request establishing an official policy against |
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> workarounds with no associated bug reports. |
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> Your thoughts? |
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> -- |
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> Best regards, |
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> Michał Górny |
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> <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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Michal |
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You're being emotional in my opinion and as a result, are painting *all* Gentoo |
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developers with a broad brush. Relax. We don't need yet another policy to "fix" |
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two problems you've encountered, this sounds silly. To be honest, I don't |
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understand your 2nd example: a change was made in an eclass and as all eclass |
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changes, these need to be discussed either here on the mailing list or via IRC. |
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You seem to be maintainer of git-r3; who made the commit? did you sign off |
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on it? if not, why was it merged? etc. Give us a bit more context please. Your |
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message looks more like a rant rather than a rational proposal. |
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Cheers, |
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Patrice Clement |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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