Re: [gentoo-dev] Going against co-maintainer's wishes (ref. bug 412697)

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 May 2013 00:14:36 +0800
> Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> But if a co-maintainer pushes through a change that I oppose, then
>> working together becomes quite difficult. In this case I opted to give
>> up maintainership.
>
> Yet another stand. No offense but I'm afraid it's quite childish of you.
> I don't understand why you're so proud of it. It's a bit like 'Gentoo
> will play as I like. If it doesn't, then I will play against Gentoo.
> And if that doesn't help, I will resent and slam the door, and then
> write to ml about it.'

Honestly, if people want to have that attitude they might as well stop
maintaining anything that installs a daemon.  As a developer you have
NO power to prevent somebody else from co-maintaining, and since those
devs who use systemd are likely to want to have units and they're
willing to do the work, you can expect somebody to show up and add a
unit.

The very nature of Gentoo leads to situations where you'll get
requests from other devs to add support for crazy stuff to your
packages (X32, prefix, init systems, etc).  As long as somebody else
is willing to do the work to maintain it (as a developer or proxy) and
it doesn't hurt conventional users, we should cooperate.

Rich