Stephen P. Becker wrote:

> Alin Nastac wrote:
>
>> I didn't dropped any keywords yet but I've been pretty close to that. 
>> See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81702 for more info.
>
>
> Congratulations, you just took something that pissed you off 
> personally and threw it up on the dev mailing list for the purpose of 
> attempting to make a point where there is none.  Never mind that for 
> well over a week, you joined #gentoo-mips at least 6 hours before any 
> of us in there would even be awake, said only "mips team ping", and 
> then logged off 5 minutes later.  You should have at least talked 
> directly to somebody before getting so pissed off.  Remember, when 
> *you* want something, *we're* not likely to come track you down.
>
Ok, I could understand that none of the mips team are online when I 
want, but how about the bug mentioned above? One month I 
waited/begged/threat!!! For what? For some lousy script updates, which 
is not arch dependent anyway!


>> C'mon people, how hard can it be to see if it builds right on your arch?
>
>
> So you are suggesting that we should mark something stable if it 
> simply compiles?  I really hope you don't apply this lazy method of QA 
> to everything you maintain, else I fear for the users installing those 
> packages.  This is the main reason we didn't touch that package, 
> because none of us had the ability to test pppoe.  If you had actually 
> made an attempt to talk to one of us when we were awake before running 
> your mouth, you would have known this.  In fact, we probably would 
> have just given you permission to remove the keyword assuming that no 
> repoman breakage resulted.
>
Not every package that I maintain is tested by me! How can I test a dsl 
driver when I have no such device!
I apply the good old rule that if a package has no open bugs for a 
month, it will be marked as stable.

If I would do things you way, in this moment net-dialup would have at 
least 100 opened bugs with no one carrying about them. I urge you to 
look in bugzilla to see how many rightfully complaints are there 
regarding my work. Not as if I consider less about a dev who made a 
mistake (only who do nothing, does no mistakes)...

It is OK to want to make more than a simple compile test, but from this 
to doing nothing when a fellow dev ask you to IS a big distance! A 
convenient excuse, nothing more...

I didn't wanted to get so involved in this bug, but invalid bug reports 
started by the transition from -r2 are killing me. In rest, what do I 
care that your arch is outdated!