Re: how to contribute to use/slot deps: was Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

[Brian Harring]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:33:06PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:56:37 -0800 Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
> wrote:
> | It's really pretty simple- get off your butt and chip in if you want
> | it, else you're on _our_ timeline (eg, we implement it when we deem
> | it sane/ready to go).
>
> Is Portage development done to support the needs of those of us who
> provide the tree, or is the tree expected to be restricted to whatever
> Portage developers feel like implementing?

Personally, I'd state anyone who thinks we're implementing only what 
we find fun to do is trolling something fierce, but I'm also a portage 
dev thus my views are a bit different.

Regardless, ciaran's own statement via irc "that the portage devs are 
hurting gentoo by ignoring certain requests" still harkens right back 
to my point- if you believe it to be the case, nagging/bitching ain't 
going to improve it in anyway.

People, you've got the source.

You want it and think we're moving to slow/being tools/incompetent 
jackasses, whatever the belief, _you_ can do something about it that 
results in actual progress- I already stated the ways to help in my 
last email.

So... again, you want it, help, or kindly sit back and wait for it to 
be implemented on our timeline.
~harring