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From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] open season on other-dev's packages -- policy change?
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:08:36
Message-Id: 20131031170825.23388.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] open season on other-dev's packages -- policy change? by Rich Freeman
1 Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > If a package has a responsive maintainer, then pinging them isn't
3 > really much of a hurdle.
4
5 I'm not so sure. Waiting for a human round trip which due merely to
6 time zones might occupy my attention for 24 hours (even if I
7 obviously do other things meanwhile) is IMO quite significantly
8 different from the 24 seconds it might take for me to commit a fix.
9
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11 //Peter

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