From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24247138010 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:26:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D84F4E07EB; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vb0-f50.google.com (mail-vb0-f50.google.com [209.85.212.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E74EAE07B7 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:26:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f50.google.com with SMTP id ft2so3675261vbb.9 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:26:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=f4pBdUYG+4WYRdumZi91FGUzuzhp3ITYdPKCdlOQSL0=; b=YtKrcnqXdWjouh5CsmuI3Z3/imN/7VOfI+0Jc33TJieYEfwfYPlrCIrVVPdGzkZh3p vK9GbyTepxJ8QbKCbhCIIWkX87hkazbJDF0SKgm04mKdMGnxMOkZPi0en7nWff0kGFBz XFp9Smtup65M8+IxqzUZvhACx+1l164yBVxksz5f6tHd6FjIkOM36NFg+3pwdXn8EHRD 243Z2mkoxmWW4Y5zPiTb/Hmaa4+O1ukgTV2BpEbfTNpXmhDM0PindAHlhBSuPBOD8Q+p F/0RShS/g1FWGLq0pHucAogAMxsMWxyXE48vHZw8EYr0AW3AVKx4KRsNJfMb9ptGofnW U44Q== 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 X-Received: by 10.220.141.132 with SMTP id m4mr12984893vcu.17.1364171164084; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:26:04 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.101.225 with HTTP; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:26:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <514F9903.40702@gentoo.org> References: <514CE32C.7090509@gentoo.org> <20130324091557.ED2AB8B7870@amit.localdomain> <514ED8B5.4010505@gentoo.org> <514EED78.2030601@gentoo.org> <20130324134043.14941.qmail@stuge.se> <514F9903.40702@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:26:03 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: dP_vWHM9gEIFB5-CAM19fpuGaYM Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 5a720986-5a93-43d7-a3e6-9151b408805e X-Archives-Hash: edbccf7c3b5d0271620eea58979653d5 On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 03/24/2013 09:40 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: >> Markos Chandras wrote: >>> The masks are sort of announcements as you have 30 days to revert that >>> decision. >> >> You don't seem to recognize the quite significant psychological >> impact of you having already made the decision, compared to, say, >> having an actually inclusive package removal process. > > If the package has been "rotting away" with open bugs in bugzilla for > weeks or months and no one cares ... what are we supposed to do? Wait a > bit longer? I suspect the concern is over the definition of "rotting away." Just about every package in the tree has had open bugs for weeks and months. Not all bugs are worth fixing right away, but that doesn't mean they aren't valid. When they can be fixed, they are. Packages without bugs are packages that nobody has bothered to test... :) Rich