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From: Steve Dibb <beandog@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:56:10
Message-Id: 454761E0.7080105@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:33:26 +0100 Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote:
3 > | Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a):
4 > | > | What on earth are you talking about here? And why almost 6 months
5 > | > | is not enough for someone to respond on a bug with a simple
6 > | > | "we'll only support newer versions and don't care about MySQL
7 > | > | 4.0.x any more, go drop it"?
8 > | >
9 > | > Priorities. The arch teams could be too busy dealing with other bugs
10 > | > that matter more or too busy dealing with noise bugs.
11 > |
12 > | Sorry, taking 1 minute to respond on a bug after being poked for a
13 > | couple of months is not a matter of priorities, but mere politeness
14 > | and common sense. Seriously, you can't work productively with other
15 > | people if they can't be bothered to write one sentence for months.
16 >
17 > There are an awful lot of bugs requiring an awful lot of attention...
18 >
19
20 That does bring up an interesting question though -- at what point do you just
21 ignore the arch and move on so that development can continue?
22
23 I suppose if you had a nasty security verbump you needed to release, you could
24 keyword it yourself, but for everything else, what's the best way to handle
25 those if you are perpetually ignored?
26
27 Steve
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