Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

[Matt Turner]

On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
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> On 10/08/11 22:45, Matt Turner wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Markos Chandras
>> <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
>>> On 10/08/2011 02:19 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Samuli Suominen
>>>> <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
>>>>> # Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> (08 Oct 2011) #
>>>>> Fails to compile against system libpng15, bug 356127 #
>>>>> Removal in 14 days
>>>>
>>>> 14 days?
>>>>
>>>>> media-gfx/pngcrush
>>>>
>>> We can't really wait forever for slacking maintainers to fix
>>> their packages. amd64 is almost ready to have libpng-1.5 stable
>>> in the very near future
>>
>> Two things:
>>
>> 1) I'm *really* tired of the usage of the word "slacking" on this
>> mailing list. If you or someone else wants to pay me to work on
>> Gentoo, *then* you can tell me that I'm slacking. Otherwise, I'm a
>> volunteer working on things that interest me in my free time. I
>> truly do have more important things to do than to figure out how to
>> port pngcrush to libpng1.5. Namely, graduate school and midterm
>> exams.
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> The bug is open since February (9 months). If you can't handle a bug
> in 9 months then maybe you should consider stepping down as a
> maintainer. Handling does not necessarily mean fixing. Masking could
> be an acceptable solution as well. The fact that nobody pays us does
> not mean that we can use that as an excuse for lower the QA barrier of
> portage tree. If only I got a $1 everytime I hear this "excuse"...

Maybe you could check the fucking changelog and see that I added
myself as a maintainer in August?

Don't ever ask me for anything again.