On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:15:47 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 02:48 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:35:22 -0600 > > Steev Klimaszewski <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Alright, well, I've tried my best, I give up. Instead of having > > > something working we should just remove ebuilds of working > > > packages. > > > > s/should/could/ s/ebuilds/stable keyword or last stable version/ > > > > It is at the maintainer's discretion; and such decision is to make > > it possible for a maintainer to move on when he or she can no longer > > guarantee a working ebuild, to stop being progress-blocked by it. > > > > You know what - this is pure and utter bullshit. Why is this pure and utter bullshit? > Keeping it around for "slower" arches does NOT block progress. Why is keeping it around for "slower" arches not blocking progress? > I have intimate knowledge with what ACTUALLY happens when people pull > this bullshit - and that is a system that I can no longer actually > work on. That is also what happens when a maintainer keeps around old versions, as well as old bugs and support for those old versions; as by doing so, the attention towards newer versions is lost which causes much huger breakage than the one you have just brought up. Manpower is limited. > And instead of working towards a fix that actually works > for people who are ACTUALLY affected by the shitty policy, you hide > behind definitions and pedantry. Why do you think this about the current and/or suggested solution(s)? > I'm now going to take a break from Gentoo development because this > thread has seriously caused my blood to boil based on comments from > the peanut gallery (you) where things don't actually affect your day > to day work, but your actions do affect mine. Why? How and why are your actions affected by the QA team's actions? -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : [email protected] GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
