On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Markos Chandras <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 10/08/11 22:45, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Markos Chandras >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 10/08/2011 02:19 PM, Matt Turner wrote: >>>> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Samuli Suominen >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> # Samuli Suominen <[email protected]> (08 Oct 2011) # >>>>> Fails to compile against system libpng15, bug 356127 # >>>>> Removal in 14 days >>>> >>>> 14 days? >>>> >>>>> media-gfx/pngcrush >>>> >>> We can't really wait forever for slacking maintainers to fix >>> their packages. amd64 is almost ready to have libpng-1.5 stable >>> in the very near future >> >> Two things: >> >> 1) I'm *really* tired of the usage of the word "slacking" on this >> mailing list. If you or someone else wants to pay me to work on >> Gentoo, *then* you can tell me that I'm slacking. Otherwise, I'm a >> volunteer working on things that interest me in my free time. I >> truly do have more important things to do than to figure out how to >> port pngcrush to libpng1.5. Namely, graduate school and midterm >> exams. > > The bug is open since February (9 months). If you can't handle a bug > in 9 months then maybe you should consider stepping down as a > maintainer. Handling does not necessarily mean fixing. Masking could > be an acceptable solution as well. The fact that nobody pays us does > not mean that we can use that as an excuse for lower the QA barrier of > portage tree. If only I got a $1 everytime I hear this "excuse"...
Maybe you could check the fucking changelog and see that I added myself as a maintainer in August? Don't ever ask me for anything again.
