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On 04/06/2014 06:11, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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> As in, don't you think I've considered, as a active GLEP 42 user, if there |
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> was a need for one this time? I weighted my options for 3 months before |
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> acting, and people actually agreed with me it wasn't necessary at this |
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> time. I'm really suprised about this, how small group of loud people |
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> on ML can have this kind of effect. It's like, pick a $package_name, |
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> raise enough noise on ML about it, get a news item saying 'emerge <this>' |
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I have no problem that you made a judgement call and didn't think a news |
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item was necessary. But these things are always a gamble to some degree |
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and sometimes the effect isn't what you expected with the facts to hand. |
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Given the number of threads on -user, it really looks like the dice |
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didn't roll in your favour this time; it looks to you like a simple |
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decision re blockers but to the users there they see something very |
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different, and a news item gives them the info they need. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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