On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 3:47 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > W dniu pią, 08.09.2017 o godzinie 17∶19 -0400, użytkownik Rich Freeman > napisał: >> >> FYI - if anybody does want to make any comments on the proposed >> devmanual changes to implement the new tags please comment at: >> >> https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual.gentoo.org/pull/72 >> > > The footers were discussed to death in this very thread. I've heard your > opinions. However, as far as I'm concerned (and as I've pointed out) you > did literally *nothing* to push your ideas forward for 2+ years. >
So, you read something from my comment that I didn't write, and ignored the stuff I did write. In part this is my fault, because I used sarcasm out of frustration, and that wasn't conducive to communication. To be clear: I expressed my opinions earlier in the thread as you pointed out. I have no expectation that my particular suggestion would be the one implemented. If I had felt THAT strongly about the implementation of this I'd have put it on the Council agenda or something, or at least would have discussed it in privately with you on IRC or something. Instead, once I noticed that infra had implemented some of the tag processing I switched to the format it appeared to be using in my commits. I don't expect anybody to wait for 100% consensus before doing anything around here. I think I've made that clear in plenty of posts. For significant changes there should be discussion on the lists, and then the implementer should go forward with what they see as the best implementation based on the feedback received. If somebody has a problem with it then it should be their duty to escalate it and deal with it, not make the maintainer jump through extra hoops. Certainly we shouldn't be taking every change to the Council. My concern was entirely with the attitude expressed in your comment in that pull request. If you had written "I don't think we need to go back to gentoo-dev for this one because this specific proposal was part of what was already posted there and none of the feedback really suggests a major problem with this" it wouldn't have bothered me, because as the person doing the work I think you should be afforded a bit more discretion, and this was part of your proposal. Sometimes posting on -dev elicits opinions we disagree with from people who haven't done any of the work. That should neither paralyze us, nor cause us to scoff at their suggestions. They're just words. -- Rich
