From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RCiVN-00054B-8k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2011 01:48:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81ED321C169; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 01:48:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A90F21C13C for ; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 01:48:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mattst88) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 07ED31B4001 for ; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 01:48:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws19 with SMTP id 19so6669198vws.40 for ; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.34.78 with SMTP id x14mr8293501vdi.122.1318124886121; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.188.136 with HTTP; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:47:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E90FBBB.1070309@gentoo.org> References: <4E900E3E.2070202@gentoo.org> <4E905C48.20008@gentoo.org> <4E90FBBB.1070309@gentoo.org> From: Matt Turner Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 21:47:46 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a0aaa1ce58f1668052a742c19f6ce4d5 On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 10/08/11 22:45, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Markos Chandras >> wrote: >>> On 10/08/2011 02:19 PM, Matt Turner wrote: >>>> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Samuli Suominen >>>> wrote: >>>>> # Samuli Suominen (08 Oct 2011) # >>>>> Fails to compile against system libpng15, bug 356127 # >>>>> Removal in 14 days >>>> >>>> 14 days? >>>> >>>>> media-gfx/pngcrush >>>> >>> We can't really wait forever for slacking maintainers to fix >>> their packages. amd64 is almost ready to have libpng-1.5 stable >>> in the very near future >> >> Two things: >> >> 1) I'm *really* tired of the usage of the word "slacking" on this >> mailing list. If you or someone else wants to pay me to work on >> Gentoo, *then* you can tell me that I'm slacking. Otherwise, I'm a >> volunteer working on things that interest me in my free time. I >> truly do have more important things to do than to figure out how to >> port pngcrush to libpng1.5. Namely, graduate school and midterm >> exams. > > The bug is open since February (9 months). If you can't handle a bug > in 9 months then maybe you should consider stepping down as a > maintainer. Handling does not necessarily mean fixing. Masking could > be an acceptable solution as well. The fact that nobody pays us does > not mean that we can use that as an excuse for lower the QA barrier of > portage tree. If only I got a $1 everytime I hear this "excuse"... Maybe you could check the fucking changelog and see that I added myself as a maintainer in August? Don't ever ask me for anything again.