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On 11 May 2003 14:31:00 -0500 Joshua Brindle wrote: |
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> >That being said - No, I didn't talk to anyone about it before going |
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> >ahead, portage is gpl'ed, I can do what ever I want to it, and I |
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> >intend to. I didn't want to announce anything untill it was off the |
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> >ground because I think people spend FAR to much time talking and FAR |
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> >to little time actually doing something. |
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> >I didn't expect it to take off this fast, we have been going for a |
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> >few days, and there are now several ebuilds waiting in queue to be |
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> >comfirmed working once that has happened they will be forwarded to |
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> >bugzilla. (This all written in the guidelines on the forum, but I'm |
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> >guessing you didn't even take your time to read that). |
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> Yea, you can do whatever you want with it, I never said you could't. |
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> The project has good goals and the ability to help, my ENTIRE question |
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> which you did NOT answer was of logistics. Ebuild XYZ sucks and |
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> janitor fixes it and submits it to you, what then? If it doesn't |
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> somehow get into our main portage tree than it can't help anyone. THIS |
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> is the reason you should be talking to devs, to see if we can come up |
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> with a way for the cleaned up ebuilds to make it into the tree. |
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What is the recommended way then to get in touch with the devs? We |
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thought that sending a mail to -dev would be the best way. See |
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Lovechilds mail as a RFC. Your mail had some good points, but I think it |
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sounds quite harsh. |
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> >Now suggest you do some research before giving nice people like my |
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> >teammates and myself a hard time. |
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> what research? It doesn't matter how nice you and your teammates |
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> are if the project has no ability to deliver the product. Keep in mind |
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> I never questioned you or your ability or your projects or your |
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> teammates. I asked how you planned on getting this to work and you |
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> reacted in a very emotional and defensive way. I suggest you evaluate |
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> the goals of the project and your ability to contribute to Gentoo with |
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> it. We will be more than happy to facilitate your project and it's |
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> contributions but you must take the initiative to talk to developers |
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> who can help you. |
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Ok, we all calm down a bit. I can't talk for the others, but I see the |
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project as a testbed for ebuild modifications that can be tested by |
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users before they get submitted to bugs.g.o. As Lovechild has said there |
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are also discussions about new use flags and other modifications to the |
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current portage system. I missed the discussion on IRC but I saw that |
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you were backed by other devs. Please notice that this projects has been |
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started just for a few days so of course we haven't clarified all |
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issues. |
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Marius (aka Genone) |
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