Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-libs/confuse: confuse-2.7.ebuild ChangeLog

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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Am Montag, 4. März 2013, 03:19:17 schrieb Peter Stuge:
> 
> > > Again, I guess you have to make Mike go away now.
> > 
> > I never said that so please just stop it.
> 
> You threatened to preempt me if I wanted to become a developer and
> found his practise OK - meaning that the behavior is unacceptable.
> If you are to be the least consistent you really need to also
> threaten to remove him. (It would be pretty ridiculously hipocratic
> and of course harmful for project evolution if the rules apply only
> to aspiring devs.)
> 
> But I'd obviously prefer if you didn't do that to him.
> 

Seriously. While I'm all for sticking to the rules, I'm also sometimes glad 
that Gentoo is not as bad as proverbial German bureaucracy.

The fact is, people who have been around for a long time, do a lot of 
important work and are trusted by the dev community may be able to bend the 
rules *for good reason*. [I personally would prefer if that would occur less 
frequently though.]

This discussion is about whether it was really necessary (the "for good 
reason" part) or could have been done in other ways.

Starting as a developer or aspiring to become one with that attitude is not 
acceptable. No discussion of that needed.

-- 
Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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