On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 02:41:15 +0100 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"... Um, you really want me to mask my package 9 months in advance because it blocks some random tracker that I have no idea when will become relevant? How about no. The onus of masking the package is on the person that institutes the deadline. Stop being surprised that people don't think your personal pet project is as important as you do. -- fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it makes no sense toolchain, wxwidgets but i'll take it free anytime @ gentoo.org EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662
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