Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

[Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org>]

В Втр, 11/10/2011 в 19:10 +0300, Samuli Suominen пишет:
> > Samuli pretends here to act as a part of QA team (although he is not).
> > Actually even whiteboard of stabilization bug tells #at _earliest_ 17
> > Oct" and thus there is really no sign for rush. This is the case where
> > QA should voice and either explain why fast stabilization of libpng is
> > so important or stop policy breakage. That said it became really common
> > to break our own policies (with no attempts to amend policy).
> 
> full stop.

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> what does this has to with qa@ team?

The only bodies that are allowed to avoid policies in Gentoo are QA and
security teams. Since this issue has nothing to do with security the
only option left is QA.

> so no, you don't get to use this as anykind of weapon against me or
> anyone else involved.

Sorry, I never wanted to touch any weapons and I really appreciate your
efforts. You really do tremendous job for Gentoo. But this is not the
first thread where I ask you same question: what is the problem to
follow policy? If it was a mistake what's the problem to sorry and
update mask interval. If not... What will happen if you keep hard masked
package for 30 days instead of 14? How this will affect libpng
stabilization? The only thing that changes - we will have 56
non-development related mails less in our mailboxes.

--
Peter.