From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EEbr6-00066T-P0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:07:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8C022Ta012746; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:02:02 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8BNwKQi006419 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:58:21 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EEbmQ-0007Qn-3u for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:02:38 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EEbn5-0006fs-Cu for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 01:03:19 +0100 Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 01:03:17 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Summary] tentative x86 arch team glep Message-ID: <20050912010317.4e0e98b9@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <4324C35F.5090008@wildgooses.com> References: <200509061903.39000.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <431DCBE9.4090907@wildgooses.com> <20050906182129.5725cf67@snowdrop.home> <4324C35F.5090008@wildgooses.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Mon__12_Sep_2005_01_03_17_+0100_53uKWV2uGVxxRr0P; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: a1652fe1-6d48-4161-9e83-25bc70d45aec X-Archives-Hash: 33d857e78f267b36b75792a67f4b0cda --Signature_Mon__12_Sep_2005_01_03_17_+0100_53uKWV2uGVxxRr0P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:53:03 +0100 Ed W wrote: | Might there be an option 4 which is that a slightly different system=20 | might stop everyone bitching over the current one and hence avoid=20 | wasting some time? Nope, no idea what that would be, but the thought=20 | does occur when you see some time being wasted on trivial issues... Hrm. Any change would involve adding more complexity. It would probably also involve lots of fixup work on existing code. It's likely not worth the cost. | Is there any possibility that easier low quality contribution makes | the high quality contributions easier? Only to the extent that they get me to write better documentation :) | Look at wikipedia - it's amazing that such high quality work (in=20 | general) can come from lightly peer review material with low barriers | to entry. | | Clearly not an appropriate model here, but I can't help wondering if=20 | there is not another way... Well... Sometimes maintainer-wanted ebuilds are worked upon by multiple people. It happens, but not very often. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Mon__12_Sep_2005_01_03_17_+0100_53uKWV2uGVxxRr0P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDJMXH96zL6DUtXhERAh1eAJ0fhMGAbBaNm3LpF3f5pFlspw40wwCfR+r6 6ZwRUYh4V0deV6UiX9svKHI= =flcc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Mon__12_Sep_2005_01_03_17_+0100_53uKWV2uGVxxRr0P-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list