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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HkRr7-0005iL-4z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 21:31:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l45LTTa7007242; Sat, 5 May 2007 21:29:29 GMT Received: from griffon26.kfk4ever.com (griffon26.demon.nl [82.161.57.89]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l45LQBS8002517 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 21:26:11 GMT Received: by griffon26.kfk4ever.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 420EF6544; Sat, 5 May 2007 23:25:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 23:25:55 +0200 From: Maurice van der Pot To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24 Message-ID: <20070505212554.GE23900@kfk4ever.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20070505173422.GA1263@superlupo.rechner> <20070505184647.3382e737@snowflake> <20070505191838.GB1263@superlupo.rechner> <20070505202914.3f49a88b@snowflake> <20070505200027.GC1263@superlupo.rechner> <20070505211119.372adc4d@snowflake> <463CE6CF.4070309@gentoo.org> <20070505212741.58a8506c@snowflake> <463CEB11.7030307@gentoo.org> <20070505214435.2358b2ed@snowflake> 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; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jTMWTj4UTAEmbWeb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070505214435.2358b2ed@snowflake> X-PGP-Key: http://www.kfk4ever.com/~griffon26/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.kfk4ever.com/ X-Archives-Salt: e51b59dc-619b-4b11-a3ff-d500bdddb6d9 X-Archives-Hash: 12c2aa26d0ff58ffc5bea030605a95bf --jTMWTj4UTAEmbWeb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:44:35PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > There's nothing critical about your * stuff. >=20 > Sure there is. If users aren't informed about the change in an > appropriate manner, the users get annoyed. There's a lot of subjectivity in this sentence... "appropriate"... "annoyed"... but none of it is relevant to whether or not it is critical.=20 Critical is about breakage that causes a lot more work in fixing than it would have in preventing and that the user will not know about until it is too late. > You're trying to sabotage this based upon arguments over wording > technicalities. Where is your evidence that this is not delivering > what is best for affected users? Any evidence of this kind is irrelevant. We're not going to tie GLEP 42 in with paypal to give users money either, which would also be pretty good for users. It's *critical* news reporting, not slashdot. Maurice. --=20 Maurice van der Pot Gentoo Linux Developer griffon26@gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org Creator of BiteMe! griffon26@kfk4ever.com http://www.kfk4ever.com --jTMWTj4UTAEmbWeb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGPPZiMGnpIbeahxwRAvE0AJ4oWiPO6D+NYJsViKk+5fJ+8U1njACgxQyS 2Ub3edpiofWOIuBo3yJK6kQ= =k1ei -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jTMWTj4UTAEmbWeb-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list