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On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 20:27 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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> > Thank you for the opportunity. Apparently though, my submissions have |
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> > already been rejected Ciaran. It's important to realize that the |
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> > submissions were intended to AID the developers, not to necessarily be |
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> > PERFECT in every way. |
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> Of course they have been criticized by Ciaran. In case you didn't know, |
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> he does this for *every* maintainer-wanted ebuild. They are only |
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> rejected as long as they have problems. If you fix them, they will be |
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> accepted if some dev takes responsibility for them, or is recruited to |
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> maintain them. It's really that simple Sounds like a case where you |
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> can't stand to have anyone review your work. |
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> > I submitted the ebuilds in good faith in the hope they would help myself |
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> > and others get the portage tree wrt ROX up to date and correct |
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> > breakages. In that my "spacing" was not liked, or my "descriptions" were |
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> > too long is irrelevant. |
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> No, it isn't irrelevant. We strive to make the portage tree to be of |
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> high quality. Why settle for less? |
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> -Steve |
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Oh, flame on! When I submitted many of the ebuilds, I had no idea the |
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rox maintainers were AWOL. I just assumed that they would take heed of |
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the version bumps, small changes made to existing ebuilds, and update |
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portage. It was not my intent to replace the maintainers or to re-invent |
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their efforts. I thought that having a new up-to-date ebuild would save |
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time for the maintainers. |
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I did not know that there were none anymore. As I wrote privately to |
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Ciaran, if I WAS auditioning to become a dev, then sure, I need the |
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comments. However, I was using: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml as my guide -- the goal |
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being to alert the devs that new stuff was out and that certain |
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breakages needed fixing. |
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If the goal was to keep portage quality high, take heed of user comments |
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when it comes to updating packages. We all share that goal. |
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Peter |
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