From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OkHbf-0000h1-Dc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:21:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 64E8FE0684; Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:21:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9420CE083C for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:20:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from portable.localnet (dyn60-60.yok.fi [86.50.74.60]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 05F7B1B41B7 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:20:43 +0000 (UTC) From: Alexis Ballier Organization: Gentoo To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/mlt: ChangeLog mlt-0.5.4-r1.ebuild Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:20:38 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100806212139.9E8422CE15@corvid.gentoo.org> <201008141637.04507.aballier@gentoo.org> <20100814140038.GB4529@Mystical> In-Reply-To: <20100814140038.GB4529@Mystical> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008141720.39003.aballier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 4c25b2b0-9c06-497f-b9b5-2c52f4195681 X-Archives-Hash: 5bc752a83084263b921a7a78a429a9bc On Saturday 14 August 2010 17:00:38 Markos Chandras wrote: [...] > > > > - There is absolutely no reference to any patch sent upstream and I > > > > have not seen anything on the upstream dev ml. > > > > > > Thats because I didn't. I've fixed more than 40 bug wrt LDFLAGS. Do you > > > expect me to subscribe to 40 different ML and send them upstream? > > > > you don't need to subscribe, there's usually an AUTHORS file with emails > > you can use... > > As I said, I thought that maintainers was responsible to do it since they > follow all the bug progress after all. So according to you I should do all > the work. Tempting yes please; I consider not doing it a bit rude as the maintainers will _have_ to clean after you. > > > The > > > patch is there, the maintainer is CC on the bug. All he has to do it to > > > send this damn patch to upstream. > > > > I can use the same reasoning and ask: > > Why don't you do it in the first place if that's "all" ? > > Cause I cannot maintain all the tree myself you're confused; contributing to an(other) OSS project (and retaining authorship of your patches & improvements) does not have much to do with maintaining a package. [...] > > > I only do QA fixing. If you have problem touching your > > > packages just say it > > > > I don't have problems with anyone touching "my" packages (esp. when > > they're herds packages...); though when I'm not happy with the technical > > details I let it be known and _really_ appreciate when the comments are > > taken into account instead of aggressively discarded by trying to argue > > why it's not been perfect in the first place ;) > > > > A. > > I don't think what I do is perfect. But all this kind of judgement is > quite demotivated I must say. Don't be demotivated. The only "judgement" I made is on the technical side and not on the global goal; on that side you can just fix it, get thanks & kudos and be done :) A.