On Tuesday 06 January 2004 16:45, Robert Cole wrote: > On Tue January 06 2004 4:44 am, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > <snip> > > > turning all gentoo system into spam zombies. Then imagine I was the > > manager of a company that as a result had extra costs of say $100000. In > > that case I would certainly try to sue gentoo technologies inc. I feel > > that I actually should be awarded damages. > > I'm just going to let this part go but I will say I'm not advocating > irresponsibility.
I know you don't, I was just making sure that everyone understands that the distribution team can not just ignore that there are very many (hundreds of thousands?) systems depending on gentoo and they expect gentoo to have a tree that aims at being stable and certainly secure. > I personally feel the fewer that have access to cvs the better. I and I > believe Allen are advocating a better middle layer. One that eases the > shoulders of the cvs devs and one that encourages more participation. > Currently it doesn't appear that you can have that participation without > cvs access. I would be the first one to agree that bugzilla is not perfect, and that a better way of handling ebuild submissions would be welcome. However in any case there is some level of trust given to the non-dev maintainer. It is actually trusting both that this person will actually maintain the ebuild, and that the person is actually capable of doing so (and handling the bugs). What I think would be very likely in such a case is a group of second-class citizens that have more recognition than just the next guy, but that are not full devs. I don't know whether this is desirable, you decide. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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