On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Daniel Stone <dan...@fooishbar.org> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:02:46AM -0500, Zack Rusin wrote: >> On Thursday 11 March 2010 02:58:49 Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> > ]] Zack Rusin >> > | BTW, replacing a mail client on the server with something that's not >> > | compatible is not very social. >> > >> > Rather than assuming malice, you may assume that I was trying to fix >> > something when I made that change. >> >> I was assuming that whoever did it was trying to do something, but the >> reasoning behind the change doesn't change the result at all - we were not >> informed of it and the commit messages broke. So as far as we are concerned >> there really wouldn't be any difference between someone just deleting >> /usr/bin/mail and you trying to fix something by replacing mail with >> something >> else. The bottom line is that there's quite a few projects hosted on fdo, >> with >> a lot of people depending on that setup and making changes to it without >> communicating it very clearly it is bound to break something. >> I don't want to make into a big deal, because it wasn't but a short email or >> even an blog just saying "new /usr/bin/mail is coming in, make sure it >> doesn't >> break your project" would avoid the whole problem. > > Shit happens. Ease up.
Not to fan the flames anymore, but there is the fd.o administration blog that's syndicated on planet. That would be a nice place to dump information like this, and IIRC Benjamin used to do that. However, it seems that www.freedesktop.org/adminblog/ doesn't have the necessary permissions to view the entries. -- Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
