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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: "Tomáš Chvátal" <scarabeus@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-libs/libva: ChangeLog libva-1.0.10.ebuild
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 09:08:33 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201103090908.33359.aballier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D7649D7.3000305@gentoo.org>

On Tuesday, March 08, 2011 12:23:03 PM Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
> Dne 8.3.2011 15:51, Alexis Ballier napsal(a):
> > On Tuesday, March 08, 2011 09:28:13 AM Tomas Chvatal (scarabeus) wrote:
> >> scarabeus    11/03/08 12:28:13
> >> 
> >>   Modified:             ChangeLog
> >>   Added:                libva-1.0.10.ebuild
> >>   Log:
> >>   Update to libva shipped by freedesktop. So we do the same as debian or
> >> 
> >> archlinux. Fixes bug #336854.
> > 
> > Please read metadata.xml before committing...
> 
> I did, x11 is the herd last time i looked.

x11 is the herd because when I added it I thought that it was low level enough 
that x11 may help from time to time. This never gave the right to anyone to 
break and hijack it without discussion nor notice like you did.
Since it seems to be more a burden than a help, I'll remove x11 herd from 
metadata too when removing the fdo version.

Maybe something you didn't understand: herd/maintainership isn't about 
territoriality and giving the right to commit crap, it's about area of 
responsability.

> 
> > How comes I'm supposed to be the maintainer and have not seen any single
> > discussion about it ? Why is it better, etc ? Being a "mouton de Panurge"
> > is not a reason [1] :)
> > The only "better" thing I see is a greater version number. May I suggest
> > you to run a diff and explain me why such a change was needed ?
> 
> ok lovely list:
> 1) it has freedesktop web page, and we should preffer fdo alternatives
> anyway

yes, didnt you think that maybe there's a reason I've been using the sds 
version for almost one year ?

> 2) it has existing git repo (could not find repo for the va you use)

you clearly didnt run a diff... its the fdo version + a debian/patches dir 
with, heh, some fixes and improvements I'm using...

> 3) debian/archlinux/fedora use this one I commited, not former one.

so what?

> 4) the bug was reported to you with x11 CC and you had 6 months already
> to at least reply to it why/if you don't agree with the switch.
> Suprisingly we try to close long-open bugs with no-maintainer reply.

There was no reply because I didn't see the point, for now, to flame users by 
telling them that a version number doesnt necessarily bring them more code nor 
features. I thought gentoo developers were aware of that. I was wrong.
I left it open because I thought, at some point, that we will not need the sds 
version. I don't think it's the case now.

Seeing that I bumped it ~1 week ago, did you really expect that it was an 
abandonned package and that you were saving it ? Were you trying to hijack it? 
Or maybe just piss me off ?

A.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-09 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20110308122813.BD46320054@flycatcher.gentoo.org>
2011-03-08 14:51 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-libs/libva: ChangeLog libva-1.0.10.ebuild Alexis Ballier
2011-03-08 15:23   ` Tomáš Chvátal
2011-03-09  3:52     ` Ryan Hill
2011-03-09 12:08     ` Alexis Ballier [this message]
2011-03-09 13:13       ` Tomáš Chvátal
2011-03-09 13:53         ` Alexis Ballier
2011-04-29 19:17           ` Matt Turner
2011-05-09 16:25             ` Matt Turner
2011-05-09 22:38               ` Alexis Ballier
2011-05-09 23:00                 ` Matt Turner
2011-05-09 23:44                   ` Alexis Ballier
2011-03-09 13:48       ` Jeremy Olexa

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