On 10/26/2009 11:30 PM, Jeffrey Fearn wrote:
Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
No package xslth in Fedora, and no review request either (well, there
is one but it was deferred by Jeff for no apparent reason).

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455358

Comment #6 From Jeff Fearn ([email protected]) 2008-11-17 23:55:06 EDT
Packages rebuilt

Comment #7 From Jeff Fearn ([email protected]) 2009-01-04 23:51:45 EDT
Request withdrawn

We now know that my tolerance for bureaucracy is less than 6 weeks.


That, in my opinion, is a funny quote coming from someone @redhat.com.

What is wrong with this picture?

The Fedora packaging process is ridiculously bureaucratic and completely
lacking in accountability?


I'm not sure what this has to do with what I asked, but I'll bite;

Have you seen the packages that come from Red Hat? Make no mistake, patches in there fail to apply in a simple rpmbuild --rebuild. Not to mention the horror in Merge Review requests. They, *they*, are part of the reason why the Fedora Packaging process is so bureaucratic, mind you. This thing builds the *best* packages, too, in case you were wondering what the use of all that paper shoveling was.

- correct indentation of formalpara's in orderedlists (again mainly
PDF)

...but not for this, unfortunately :(


I hate repeating myself but why isn't the beta in rawhide again?

A: Doing so would have made it impossible for those Red Hat people using
rawhide to do their daily work.


Without it being in a current Fedora release or rawhide I cannot do my daily work, how about that? It was fixed at one point, broken at another, and you say it fixed in the mystical Beta, but nobody knows where it is -until you just said it.

I bet there's as many people within Red Hat using rawhide in their daily jobs (AND using Publican) as there is people using Publican within my company.

B: Publican is NOT a fedora project and our time lines are not
constrained by fedora or it's bureaucracy.


Actually they are in many many ways but I guess you don't realize that yet, so nevermind.

C: The Fedora packaging process is ridiculously bureaucratic and
completely lacking in accountability?


Despite the feeling I get you are repeating yourself, all I can say here is you either step up to improve it or you live with it. I'm not on this list to argue with you about what you think sucks so great you can't do your job any more well then you have -there's mailing lists for that (friday-list@, memo-list@).

I'm here to collaborate, and I'll tell you what I normally, but first:

At several points, when I address an issue on this list, you just point me to the fact there's some kind of mystical Beta out there, which isn't available, and doesn't compile from SVN (didn't find a beta-like tag that would build either), I gotta query a dozen resources to get the packages (which I obviously have not), it uses different directories for all kinds of foo (bye bye brands), and now you dare getting in my face about it?

The package requests have been in fedora's ridiculously bureaucratic and
completely lacking accountability package request system for 6 weeks, if
you want to vent at someone I suggest you direct it at the people who
advocate that system.

And yes, if I'd opened those tickets I would have closed them by now and
not bothered with 1.0 on fedora. Bureaucracy is like a shell fish
allergy, your tolerance is lowered every time you encounter it :/


Damn dude, your attitude sucks.

Here's what you should have done right from the beginning:

Jeroen: formalpara's / tables blabla
Jeff: Yeah, whatever, fixed in Beta but not in Fedora because of:
  1) xslth
  2) that other thing
  3) whatever
  (..)
  389) ohw yeah, and this...

And you know... I would have gone through all the hoops and fixed up the packages or whatever else needed fixing so that they would have been accepted well within the fucking six weeks timelimit.

And you know what, if you had just told me your boss is putting pressure on you to make sure all kinds of foo and bar departments within Red Hat can use Publican "we-don't-care-about-our-core-competency"-style, I would have *perfectly well* known what you were talking about -and helped you get the shit done, just so that it would have helped *us*.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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