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On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 10:32 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> As he said, he contactedd the maintainers in ample time, so I would say |
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> that since they didn't respond he went ahead in good faith. I'll get the |
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> link later, but as I recall, the dev manual recommends a 2-4 week wait |
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> for maintainers not responding then we can assume that what we are doing |
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> is ok. |
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This assumes there is some pressing need for the change to take place, |
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which I am not sure there is. I can understand wanting to make the |
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change for consistency's sake, but the feature is important enough |
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that I think a suitable replacement should explicitly be found before |
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continuing. E.g. affirmative feedback from all affected packages. |
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Enforcement of rules or Gentoo development guidelines does not happen |
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consistently, and the times when rules are enforced "for consistency's |
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sake" seem completely arbitrary. There seems to be no extant problems |
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caused by the flag as set, so why focus on this specifically? |
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There is a lot of discussion of not burdening developers with |
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pointless talk or changes. If that is a goal, then why is this posting |
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receiving so many replies? |
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Respectfully, |
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R0b0t1 |