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On 03/11/19 21:37, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2019-11-03 at 15:26 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: |
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>> You being a qa member doesn't have a lot to do with this mgorny. you |
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>> know there was no official policy when I posted this, and as far as I |
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>> know there is not one now. |
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> That is a really poor argument. Something that's respected for 10+ |
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> years and reported as QA violation is a standing policy as far as I'm |
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> concerned. Just because it isn't backed by a formally stamped policy |
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> (at least as far as we know -- maybe it was actually stamped somewhere |
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> in the past?) doesn't mean you it's fine for one person to change it ad- |
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> hoc because it stands in his way. |
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> I should point that I'm very concerned that you're pushing this forward |
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> even though: |
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> 1) I've objected to the change itself, |
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> 2) I've pointed out that it's been sent to the wrong mailing list, |
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> and that this explicitly prevents a number of developers from even |
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> knowing that this is happening, |
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> 3) removing it provides a way for regressions that can have major impact |
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> on users and that involve much effort in reverting that. |
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> So if I send a revert patch afterwards, and you object, should the patch |
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> be accepted because only one person objected? |
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Children, please take this off-list ... |