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On Tuesday 13 October 2009 19:30:52 Joshua Saddler wrote: |
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> All that to say, Tommy (et al), is that the idea of expecting users to |
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> magically know everything and not to offer any documentation *in advance* |
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> . . . is a silly idea. Good lord, can you imagine the shitstorm the X11 |
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> team would have gone through if they'd tried *that* without first writing |
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> up xserver 1.5 and 1.6 migration guides?! |
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we arent talking migrations that are forced onto everyone. we're talking |
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about new code that users have to *opt in* for ("new net") that is only |
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available in unstable. expecting everything in testing to be documented up |
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front is unreasonable. no one is saying the stuff shouldnt be documented, |
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just that complete user friendly coverage is not a requirement for unstable. |
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your comments here dont really apply to bleeding edge -- they certainly apply |
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to stable though. |
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this code doesnt even really appear to be documented upstream [1], so it seems |
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only Roy knows the magic sauce atm. |
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1: http://roy.marples.name/archives/openrc-discuss/2009/0040.html |
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-mike |
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