On Mon, 2019-12-02 at 10:44 +0100, Lars Wendler wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Dec 2019 10:10:55 +0100 Michał Górny wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2019-11-27 at 00:26 +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > > The next council meeting will be on Sunday 2019-12-08, 19:00 UTC in
> > > the #gentoo-council channel on Freenode. Please reply to this mail
> > > with desired agenda topics.
> > >
> >
> > I'd like to pass a big question™ towards the Council since there seems
> > to be some disagreement on the direction Gentoo should take:
> >
> > ===
> > Should Gentoo developers be expected to be able to find a way to work
> > together to build a somewhat consistent distribution, or should it be
> > allowed for individual developers to 'run their own shops' and ignore
> > everybody else?
> > ===
> >
> > To explain what I mean with an extreme example: in the past we had
> > a developer who blocked adding systemd units to his own packages
> > because of his own personal agenda against systemd. This was
> > obviously harmful to systemd users who couldn't install use those
> > packages normally, and was harmful to consistent user experience
> > across Gentoo.
>
> Perhaps you even mean my past actions here because that was exactly
> what I did with my packages. The reason is not because I want to
> actively sabotage systemd in Gentoo but because I cannot test the
> unit files as I do not use/have a Gentoo installation with systemd
> available. What I did was to assign such request bugs to our systemd
> team and gave them permission to add these systemd units to my packages.
>
No, that's fine and understandable. It's one thing to ask somebody else
to take care of setup he needs. It's another to actively block it 'over
my dead commit access'.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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