On Sat, 16 May 2009 15:27:59 -0600
Denis Dupeyron wrote:
> > This is another of those issues where whichever way it's done, some
> > people complain.
>
> As long as you go by the rules those who complain about you doing so
> are wrong. I've been told you were not the kind who was afraid of
> bein
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
wrote:
> Except that at the last Council meeting, there were complaints that
> objections *had* been included and discussed in the GLEP, and claims
> that including such material made the GLEP less clear.
As unfortunate as it is, council members ha
On Sat, 16 May 2009 15:13:50 -0600
Denis Dupeyron wrote:
> If the author had documented these objections and the answers in the
> glep then it would have made it possible to avoid most of what you
> call the nonsense.
Except that at the last Council meeting, there were complaints that
objections
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Ciaran McCreesh
wrote:
> Because the way Gentoo works, any objection to a proposal, valid or not,
> whether or not it's already been addressed, has to be answered before a
> proposal gets anywhere. Thus, every time people post nonsense about
> GLEP 55, every post h
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
Let's not blatantly ignore our REAL problems. We can no longer afford
to maintain the status-quo of pedantic masturbatory discussions on the
finer points of ebuild formats. We cannot AFFORD to look the other way
while the distro rots away.
What exactly is your proposal?
On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:28:57 +0530
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> Why do we let utterly *useless* discussions eat into our precious
> developer time?
>
> Why is it that this thread has 500 replies
Because the way Gentoo works, any objection to a proposal, valid or not,
whether or not it's already bee
Why do we let utterly *useless* discussions eat into our precious
developer time?
Why is it that this thread has 500 replies, but Mart's
maintainer-wanted thread has less than 10?
I *do not care* if the ebuild format will not be "properly extensible"
when the need arises. We'll cross that bridge