Am 21.03.2006 um 15:59 schrieb David R. Morrison:
On Mar 20, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Max Horn wrote:
Well, in my eyes, those "rights" were already severely cut when
those packages where moved to the intel tree, without the
maintainers being involved in anyway. Again, I understand the
logistic reasons for this. But: by this process, the packages were
marked (in the eyes of the users that will vent their frustration
to the general lists or by emailing the maintainer) as ready for
usage on Intel -- even though those packages in some cases don't
work (yet) at all, may not even compile.
Every announcement we've made about fink on intel, even to this
very day, emphasizes that fink on intel is in a very preliminary
state. Users who treated things as being 'ready for intel' and
behaved accordingly should have been told this.
I actually fully agree with that, and this is precisely what I did so
far. And I am not really unhappy about other people adapting my
package to be intel ready, to the contrary: thanks folks! Rather, my
above statement (here without context) was in reply to what Alexander
said about that, and which frankly upset me quite a bit... I.e. that
if I tell people that I can't fix their Intel problems directly
myself, that I loose my right to complain about things...
Anyway, this is probably off-topic :-). What I really want to say is
this: I do not want to make things more complicated for the active
core staff of Fink, and I am all for a pragmatic approach to things.
Including who is allowed to modify a package. I just think that as
long as we do have maintainers, they should usally be the ones to
make changes, and others making those changes should be the
exception, not the rule -- otherwise, we can abandon the concept of
maintainers altogether. Which, as the Gnome stuff showed, doesn't
really work :-/
Cheers,
Max
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