On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 10:41 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 18:17 +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > I feel that you are answering "the grass is green" whenever I ask you > > for the time of the day. Hmmm ... > > ...and you and Daniel are answering with a question every time we ask a > direct question or ask you to refute something we've said.
Erm. Wow. So you get to play both sides of the argument? [snip lots of stuff] > > > And out in the adult world, sometimes the rules have to be broken. > > > That's why > > > an educated dev is more use to us than a dev who is also told "you have > > > to do > > > this every time, and the software won't let you do it any other way just > > > to > > > make sure". > > repoman > > Repoman doesn't even work in gentoo-x86/eclass, thanks for playing. Thanks for not listening, moron. repoman is a technical solution for what used to be a "social" problem (devs mangling keywords and not keywording all deps etc.) > > I think at this point we should change our strategy: > > > > At some point in time, we bribe the doc people to post a new policy and > > commit stuff all across the tree. Then you'll have to use it. > > Excellent, except the same people that post developer policy are the > same people that would be examining your actions and deciding whether or > not you'll be sticking around once the complaints start rolling in from > developers and users alike. There's also that fun thing about being > able to revert a commit that you seem to forget, after all, the > inability to revert a commit seems to be your prime reason for this > proposal. Erm. eh ... that's not the point But at the moment we have a standoff where nothing moves. Once something has happened, there's a small chance of it not being undone, which is a lot larger than nothing at all. > > P.S. That strategy has been used by a few devs in the past and had on > > average positive results ... > > Usually it was because their ideas made sense and worked, not because > they were a vocal minority with a technically inferior solution to a > non-existent problem. Perhaps it is time you rethink your position, but > I don't see that happening any more than I see our moon suddenly raining > cheese on Ethiopia. *cough* MacOS *cough* I remember the whining and yelling and clawing ... "omgomgomg!! you can't do that!!!" .... but then it just stuck. and grew. and is now mostly accepted. > > P.P.S. If you find any form of sarcasm, cynism or humor, you can keep > > it. > > It is "cynicism". There's no need to be funny. Your proposal is > humorous enough on its own. Oh sorry. Since english is not my native language I sometimes err. And I'm not trying to be funny. If I was, you'd know (or at least I hope you'd do) Anyway, enjoy yourself, Patrick
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