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On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 09:19, John Nilsson wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 08:33, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> > Vague discussions don't usually end up anywhere productive, but just |
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> > like the policy of the linux-kernel mailing list, patches and good |
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> > changes are a lot more likely to be accepted, providing there is |
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> > somebody willing and able to maintain them (that's the reason a lot of |
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> > new ebuilds aren't being accepted right now, as we just don't have |
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> > enough manpower). |
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> Can we remove the NEED for a maintainer? |
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Definitely not. If we were to do something so asinine, we would end up |
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with packages that are grossly out of date with no hope of them ever |
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being updated. There would also be nobody responsible for that ebuild, |
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so there would be nobody liable if something were to go wrong with it. |
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All in all, it is a very bad idea. |
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Also, remember that there is *NOTHING* stopping you from creating your |
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own nice little site, let's call it gentoo-users.somedomain.org, where |
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you post ebuilds submitted by users but not accepted into the main |
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portage tree for various reasons. |
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The guys over at breakmygentoo are a fine example. There are plenty of |
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developers that don't like it, and plenty then do, but all in all, it is |
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the users that matter. Simply *because* Gentoo is so community-driven, |
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can a site like BMG thrive so well. If you don't like what we're doing, |
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submit to BMG... or make your own site. It's all up to you on what you |
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do. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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