On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:43:22 +0800
Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 21 April 2013 22:38, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@gentoo.org>wrote:
> 
> > Denis Dupeyron schrieb:
> > > I'm hoping this kind of immature and abrasive behaviours will not
> > > propagate (notice the plural here). Yes, when you see a package being
> > > actively maintained by somebody else you should absolutely not touch
> > > it without talking to that person or team first.
> >
> > I fail to see any wrong behavior here. A bug report was created and a
> > review
> > of the changes was requested. The first reaction came after several weeks
> > after the bug filing, and the first objection almost two months after the
> > change was applied.
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455074
> >
> 
> You are missing an important part of the story.
> See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455070 where we discuss
> the same issue for freetype. (Yes I should have been explicit for fontconfig
> too, my bad.)
> 
> I initially reacted within hours, saying that his proposal was in my eyes
> not ready yet. I assumed I was clear enough in my refusal, but
> apparently Michał didn't understand it that way. He then contacted
> the herd a few weeks later, when I was on holiday, and got Luca's permission
> to commit, not taking into account he hadn't touched those packages in
> many years.

Just to be clear -- I misunderstood you indeed. I thought you mean that
you would agree if the idea is discussed and the discussion results in
a general agreement on proceeding with the solution.

> After I found out, I was a bit pissed off about it, but I was too busy with
> work to deal with it (and thought it wise to cool down a bit before taking
> action). I then saw bug reports about the freetype multilib ebuild revision
> flooding in, and was satisfied after it got masked.

Those bugs weren't relevant to the final version of the ebuild which
you have masked. The only actual bug left open was the one which I
forgot to close after fixing it instantly after it was opened.

So please don't say that I don't take responsibility for my changes.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny