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> You should really either reconsider your understanding of opensource or |
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> start to pay me. |
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we're talking not about you and your opensource work. We're talking about your |
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consideration to force allmaintanersto drop gtk2 *even if they want to |
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maintain it*. And I disagree with exactly that. Or, do you argue that forcing |
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by lack of manpower in QA team? |
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And one more thing: opensource is "you're free to do the thing or to not to |
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do". But not the "you're not free to do that" (i.e. "you're forced to not add |
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gtk2 in the ebuilds, despite of upstream supported it and you want to add it") |
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> Gentoo is for the most part GPL-2 and you can fork, change and |
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> redistribute it any way you want. We are not dictating anything. |
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Yes it is (and let's omit the facts, that it is some forks already). But we |
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are talking about bueraucratic enforcement of people (maintainers and users), |
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but not about forking policy. |
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> Given the fact that we are short on manpower and that most part of the |
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> linux ecosystem is moving towards gtk3... there has been no good |
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> argument to support a toolkit version - that is (about to be) deprecated |
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> - for exotic corner use cases that people tried to come up with in the |
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> heat of the argument. |
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It is great one: it is not *yet* deprecated. It is okay to drop it from the |
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tree when it will be deopped by upstream. But dropping something by downstream |
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will (at least, without official explaination "because of lack of manpower") |
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is something strange and tyranny. |
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And I'm pretty sure, if you'll post such notice, there will definitely be |
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people, that would be happy to assist in that situation. |
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> Gtk3 is not gnome3. Gtk3 is not systemd. Can we please be realistic now? |
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Gtk3-related politic, that we discussing here looks very simiar to gnome3 |
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upstream politic. |
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P.S. Don't count this as mockery, but, following that logic, maybe we should |
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also drop python2, because of deprecation in favour of python3? :) It will |
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definitelly help to decrease manpower on maintainership. |
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Best regards, |
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mva |
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