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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 16:50:52
Message-Id: CAJ0EP42hgPz8wP7LxipbXscF_2HypcXf-38MrcawMNXRauzghA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default by Thomas Deutschmann
1 On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:29 AM Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On 2021-01-08 17:03, Mike Gilbert wrote:
4 > > I strongly object to you pushing this patch as-is. There have been
5 > > plenty of non-technical objections, including from the eclass
6 > > maintainer.
7 >
8 > The eclass maintainer has disqualified himself going into a technical
9 > debate with saying
10 >
11 > > So, over my dead commit access.
12 >
13 > in his first posting.
14 >
15 > This is a technical mailing list. Currently, acct-* stuff is breaking
16 > stuff. Nobody has challenged this yet.
17 >
18 > Now I proposed a way how to unbreak stuff.
19 >
20 > Please tell me why we should keep broken stuff for non-technical reason
21 > and cause harm for those who are affected?
22 >
23 > It's not like we cannot address the other stuff later. It's about
24 > getting the fix down to users who are currently affected by this. So why
25 > take hostage when some user(s) ignore the problem for more than a year
26 > and show that they are not interested in collaboration to find a
27 > solution for a technical problem they created despite warnings before
28 > this went live?
29 >
30 > Of course, if you are not affected by this problem it is very easy to
31 > relax and sit back. You have all the time in the world... but when you
32 > are affected by this at large scale it is not that funny anymore.
33
34 Let me put it this way: if you push this without agreement from the
35 maintainer, QA, or council, you can probably expect a swift revert.