From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] sys-devel/autoconf: Convert from eblits into an eclass, #586424
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:00:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170323190000.6f8a34bf@snowblower> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170323195213.406ba9f8@gentoo.org>
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:52:13 +0100
Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Do you think really think it's fine for maintainer to:
> >
> > 1. go against best practices, principle of least surprise and
> > basically make it harder for anyone else to touch the ebuild (-> aim
> > for bus factor of 1 and/or making himself indispensable)?
>
> This is very (too) subjective.
It's really not. eblits are the result of vapier being vapier, and just
shoving stuff into the tree without review rather than doing things
properly. This stuff matters: Gentoo needs to be actively improving the
quality of the tree so that progress can be made, not fighting a losing
battle to stop it from getting even worse.
--
Ciaran McCreesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-23 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-16 9:38 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] sys-devel/autoconf: Convert from eblits into an eclass, #586424 Michał Górny
2017-03-16 10:07 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-03-16 12:19 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-16 12:57 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-03-16 18:42 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-16 18:58 ` Michał Górny
2017-03-16 22:48 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-16 20:14 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-03-16 23:12 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-16 12:15 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-16 12:59 ` Michał Górny
2017-03-16 13:30 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2] " Michał Górny
2017-03-20 8:35 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] " Mike Frysinger
2017-03-20 9:49 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-03-20 11:19 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-20 14:12 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-03-20 17:01 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-20 17:40 ` Mike Gilbert
2017-03-20 18:15 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-20 18:26 ` Mike Gilbert
2017-03-20 18:24 ` Michał Górny
2017-03-20 21:12 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-20 21:19 ` Michał Górny
2017-03-20 21:30 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-20 19:25 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-03-20 21:14 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-21 8:28 ` Joshua Kinard
2017-03-21 8:43 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2017-03-21 9:17 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-21 9:41 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2017-03-21 10:00 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-21 10:16 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2017-03-21 21:54 ` Joshua Kinard
2017-03-21 10:24 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2017-03-23 9:41 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2017-03-23 9:51 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-23 10:55 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2017-03-23 13:36 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-23 16:36 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-03-23 18:41 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-23 18:46 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2017-03-23 19:12 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-23 19:17 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2017-03-23 19:49 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-23 19:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2017-03-23 16:53 ` Michał Górny
2017-03-23 18:52 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-23 19:00 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2017-03-23 19:00 ` Michał Górny
2017-03-23 20:22 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-23 20:30 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2017-03-23 21:37 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-23 21:45 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2017-03-24 10:23 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-23 21:20 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-03-23 21:42 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-23 21:45 ` David Seifert
2017-03-24 8:57 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-24 10:05 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-03-24 10:36 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-24 1:58 ` M. J. Everitt
2017-03-24 19:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
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