Re: [gentoo-dev] Keys and words: ways to fail your team

[Peter Johanson <latexer@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:41:37PM -0700, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
> Comrades!
> 
> Once more, I come before you with sad tidings. Evil anti-gentoo
> conspirators are plotting to destroy our
> wonderful distribution. Yet again they tried to subvert quality and
> integrity of our distribution by falsely
> claiming that certain packages build and run *gasp* stable *gasp* on
> platforms said saboteurs apparently
> do not even have access to.
> 
> This time many packages in dev-dotnet were marked testing / stable on
> all arches, but thanks to the
> valiant struggles of our tireless arch teams, at least SPARC and MIPS
> have now been rescued from the
> iniquity of the apostate traitors on the x86 monoarchist payroll. Other
> arches have also been warned, and
> hopefully will be in time to save themselves, or at least recover the
> damages in timely manner.
> 
> Comrades!
> 
> For how long will we tolerate these wreckers among us? How much more
> patience shall we show?
> It is about time to stop such behavior once and for all! Let us join
> against the forces of evil and deal
> it a crushing defeat!
> 
>     Death to vermin!

I know this is intended to be tongue in cheek, but I have a dev in the
dotnet herd who's really pretty upset right now as a result of such
apparently scathing comments accusing him of being an evil conspirator,
a wrecker, and traitor, when it wasn't even *him* who introduced the
keywords in question, he did a by the book bump moving arch -> ~arch for
all arches listed in keywords.

I understand that this is a consistent problem, and that we constantly
have to deal with breakages like this, but please don't send emails
like this with so many accusations without at least talking to the herd
lead, or viewing CVS history first.

I like dealing with the mess of pissed off and enflamed developers as
much as the arch teams like dealing with bad QA, so next time, please
use at least a *little* subtlty before blowing things up.

Anyway, I'm glad all the arch teams, who are the one's that never screw
up and save us all, are fixing things.

</sarcasm>

-pete


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