[gentoo-security] Re: Let's blow the whistle

[Peter Simons]

Kurt Lieber writes:

 > When I privately suggested an alternate solution that
 > works better with the tools the devs already use, scales
 > far better and solves the problem more completely than
 > your solution does, you didn't want to hear about it.

Look. I am really tempted to actually _post_ some of the
e-mail you sent me, because I feel that stuff like

 | You aren't helping anyone. You're simply being an
 | asshole. Welcome to my killfile, asshole.

suggests you are not perfectly objective about who stopped
talking to whom. Alas, it is a waste of time because you
won't be swayed from your opinion and the other readers on
the list don't care.

So to address your point

 > You obviously feel quite passionately about this issue
 > and just as obviously don't like the timeframe being
 > discussed for fixing this issue as it stands.

instead, check out this:

 | From: Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o>
 | Cc: gentoo-security@l.g.o
 | Message-ID: <20041107154046.GG10927@×××××××××××.org>
 |
 | [...]
 |
 | >  (3) Is there any estimate how long this will take?
 |
 | n/a
 |
 | [...]


 > So why not take that passion and devote it to writing
 > some python code that fixes the issue? You claim you want
 > to help Gentoo. Put your code where your mouth is.

Kurt, I am sorry, but I simply don't know how the internals
of your main site and mirroring system work. Without that
knowledge, there is really, really little I can do from
here. The problem is not implementing lots of Python code,
the problem is getting a bit of very simple shell code
_installed_ on the server in a way that makes sense.

So if your perception is that either I submit code RIGHT NOW
or I am not helping Gentoo, then I fear I am not helping
Gentoo.

Peter


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