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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G7QQs-0007Qu-By for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 05:35:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6V5YPAk014383; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 05:34:25 GMT Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.6]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6V5W8AF007629 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 05:32:08 GMT Received: from [172.23.170.142] (helo=anti-virus02-09) by smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G7QNs-0005xO-EA for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:32:08 +0100 Received: from [82.41.57.20] (helo=snowdrop.home) by asmtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1G7QNr-0000DX-U0 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:32:08 +0100 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:32:05 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Resignation Message-ID: <20060731063205.2c7e6cbe@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: References: <1154314231.11516.10.camel@localhost> <20060731040614.5ec4b176@snowdrop.home> <200607302332.28056.brettholcomb@bellsouth.net> <20060731052751.0dc06ec2@snowdrop.home> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.20; 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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d914398e-8aff-40d2-91f2-6d63f8f11e5f X-Archives-Hash: 5d3ec287c122869eedf36423e4f229ba On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:22:33 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:20:16 -0500 "Alex Tarkovsky" | > | This "no QA" accusation is a complete myth. QA led by actual | > | Gentoo developers is indeed in place at Sunrise [1]. | | > Did you look at *which* actual Gentoo developers are on the list? | | You know, that was a completely unnecessary personal attack. God | forbid anyone take the time to attempt something they think may be | beneficial to the community. If you in all your elitist wisdom think | you can do better then try helping out. If not, then please fuck off. Good intentions and trying to be helpful don't keep users or developers. Screwups lose users and developers. Would you stick a bunch of war evacuees on a plane piloted by Britney Spears if she said she was doing it because she wanted to be helpful? | > Even that aside, if a couple of hundred developers can't handle | > doing QA for all those maintainer-wanted ebuilds, what makes you | > think four people can? | | If a couple of hundred developers actually paid any attention | whatsoever to maintainer-wanted ebuilds then there wouldn't have to | be any such project in the first place. A couple of hundred developers can barely handle the main tree... -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list