Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

[Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>]

Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> the understanding of "you're responsible for whatever you commit".

A load of bull IMO. Is this rooted in some stupid US law thing (via
the foundation) or merely in some cowardly individual disconnected
from the real world, phrasing stupid blanket rules? Or something else?

Isn't it outrageous to claim that people who create and
contribute to and around Gentoo without being developers
are any less responsible for what they do than devs are?

I have personal experience from several cases of the reverse,
but that doesn't make me think that it's the norm for devs to
behave irresponsibly.


Diego, what you wrote does nothing other than make it seem like you
have a personal agenda against Arfrever. If so, that situation is
something you must obviously work on resolving elsewhere.


I expect that anyone and everyone who contribute to any open source
project will do their damndest to contribute only "perfect" work. I
know that this is a pipe dream, but it does happen. I think the way
to make it happen more often is education, but not everyone is able
to educate and so, there is a gap..

Threats aren't an excellent way to try to close any gap IMO. WTF.


//Peter