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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Andrew D Kirch <trelane@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Jeremy Olexa wrote: |
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>> Andrew D Kirch wrote: |
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>> <snip all> |
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>> Good points, I take it that you have found a mentor and are becoming a dev |
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>> to drive this project then? |
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>> -Jeremy |
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> I've spoken in the past with both Elfyn McBratney, and Homer Parker. I have |
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> also submitted quite a few ebuilds via the bugs.gentoo.org system. I have |
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> decided that I'm pretty much not willing to fight the uphill battle with the |
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> red tape that presently exists at Gentoo. I found a problem, and wrote up a |
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> pretty sensible, and not difficult to implement solution for a problem that |
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> is both negatively affecting the code base Gentoo maintains, the quality of |
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> all FOSS code, and that has the potential to embarrass the Gentoo |
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> development community. |
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> Andrew |
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Ok, well.. If you have extra time available to write up a solution for |
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IMO, a non-issue, then you have time to devote to "dev stuff" - but, |
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if you don't want to become a dev then I would rather you didn't |
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anyway. Put it this way, maybe some of us have decided that our time |
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could be better used fixing Gentoo than fighting the uphill battle |
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with the red tape that presently exists at $UPSTREAM. It is a two-way |
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street for everyone in the FOSS world. Like I said, I like your |
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points. Personally, I try to submit everything upstream but I only |
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maintain very few ebuilds. I think this is common practice amongst |
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Gentoo devs. |
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List replies preferred. Have a good day, |
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-Jeremy |