From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JAvFq-0000IE-Iz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:43:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id m04MfYkW025550; Fri, 4 Jan 2008 22:41:34 GMT Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m04Mc41Z019616 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2008 22:38:05 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD668D306 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2008 23:43:49 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at ferdyx.org Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno.ferdyx.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zZ+hPxBbI7vZ for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2008 23:43:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from snowcone (unknown [213.121.151.206]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A617E8D305 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2008 23:43:43 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 22:37:54 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January Message-ID: <20080104223754.3fb48b85@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <61164.68.54.223.178.1199485599.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> References: <20080101103002.083C4652C4@smtp.gentoo.org> <54551.192.168.2.159.1199365359.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> <477D75CA.1030003@gentoo.org> <20080104000155.23e056b4@snowcone> <20080104004653.039f488e@snowcone> <20080104012750.63f4f23a@snowcone> <63044.68.54.223.178.1199445791.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> <20080104210213.50a99e6b@snowcone> <61164.68.54.223.178.1199485599.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-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="Sig_/YUV2UDwohCvNDXH_h1tSlPj"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 0b6794f4-6377-4fb6-90db-f8df34ec4746 X-Archives-Hash: d0a7b13c908bc3d6d314440c9c24a882 --Sig_/YUV2UDwohCvNDXH_h1tSlPj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:26:39 -0500 (EST) "Caleb Tennis" wrote: > > X and Y are pretty much irrelevant. The important factor is Z, the > > impact of leaving things the way they are. >=20 > Well, I'm asking the council to discuss when "pretty much" irrelevant > no longer applies. Compared to the cost of causing yet more arch breakage, which takes huge amounts of time to fix and leads to far more problems, I'd say X and Y should be something like one billion and three billion respectively, except in those rare cases where Z is genuinely significant. Really, I'd like to see some genuine examples of cases where people think they have a legitimate value of Z... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/YUV2UDwohCvNDXH_h1tSlPj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHfrVE96zL6DUtXhERAjjkAKCutaj4Yunm/ocA57RGDGNMRNu2/QCfYKEP doqlUvlu7U+Z3LfpT8lrCA0= =bOFb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/YUV2UDwohCvNDXH_h1tSlPj-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list