-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/3/10 8:02 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > ...you exempted yourself from that process.
Max's header on his info files exists because of people changing his packages *in fink CVS* without his permission, and without notification, which is what you did to a number of maintainers' packages, breaking some in the process. Max is very responsive to emails regarding his packages, suggestions for changes, and in many cases, responds to "I want to make *x* change because I'm doing *y* and it needs a newer version, mind if I updated?" in the affirmative without issue. He's fully in the process, he just got fed up with people committing changes without notification. His adding that header was actually part of the decision that made our policy on not committing someone else's stuff without notification more explicit. That conversation between packagers, suggestions on how to do things, etc. is normal, and, except for when you misinterpreted people's comments as attempts at "taking over" (rather than an attempt at helping conform to best practices) is what has been happening with GCC. GCC is huge and will cause a lot of people to do a lot of compiling; it's reasonable to make sure it does a good job of fitting in with Fink before it gets released on an unsuspecting end-user populace, when re-engineering the packages is part of the update. Once all this package design gets ironed out, it will be easy to do quick releases when new versions come out, but until then, it's in the users' best interest for us to be sure it will cause the least amount of issue. - -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick a.k.a. Raccoon Fink Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development Blog: http://www.raccoonfink.com/ Music: http://music.raccoonfink.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.12 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFL3sZXUu+jZtP2Zf4RAk2sAKCYoIlPiscCtxv7qGbQWWvj2ft+0wCeJZGF TS3+MUTAgrjmC83G8F2+Iy0= =VIgf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
