From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MIsdV-00062p-S7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:09:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33797E051C; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-out.neti.ee (smtp-out.neti.ee [194.126.126.44]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075BAE051C for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by MXR-5.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 520934DD for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:09:11 +0300 (EEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at estpak.ee Received: from smtp-out.neti.ee ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (MXR-5.estpak.ee [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LxlFqDRIbbn7 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:09:10 +0300 (EEST) Received: from Relayhost1.neti.ee (Relayhost1 [88.196.174.141]) by MXR-5.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0227C1EE9D8 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:09:10 +0300 (EEST) X-SMTP-Auth-NETI-Businesmail: no Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 25 From: Mart Raudsepp To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20090622212310.6d717792@snowcone> References: <20090622191805.GA4213@dodo.hsd1.nj.comcast.net> <19007.58859.469824.277869@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20090622212310.6d717792@snowcone> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-hBHqLc+gNiYqob1h4ZKN" Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:09:12 +0300 Message-Id: <1245712152.15486.3.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.0 X-Archives-Salt: 28ed53e4-0f80-4f2e-81aa-62615fd3867d X-Archives-Hash: 310662e3a4959eec60436a9c8e8b77d3 --=-hBHqLc+gNiYqob1h4ZKN Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On E, 2009-06-22 at 21:23 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:13:31 +0200 > Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > | (so that certain people can't vote and discuss things based upon > > | what they think the feature is without bothering to find out if it's > > | anything to do with what they assume). > >=20 > > Of course that's not desirable. But can you give a concrete example > > where such a thing happened? >=20 > Yup. Some of leio's huge drawn out objections to EAPI 3 that wasted > huge amounts of my time were based upon him only having read the short > name we chose for things. Thanks for your very detailed concrete examples where such a thing happened. And I'm sorry to have wasted your precious time by doing the opposite of what you claim here and still objecting to things that don't make sense. Now lets get back to useful things, like giving "code names" that make sense and don't need to be looked up with what is actually meant when they are being referred to in short names. --=20 Mart Raudsepp Gentoo Developer Mail: leio@gentoo.org Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio --=-hBHqLc+gNiYqob1h4ZKN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkpADxgACgkQkeYb6olFHJeGMQCgqJ+503CliK0JoBl+v2pQeVBA hzgAnirkIL4HLo0Z+E75rXO3axei77BQ =w+ea -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-hBHqLc+gNiYqob1h4ZKN--