Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-tv/mythtv: ChangeLog mythtv-0.20.2_p14668.ebuild mythtv-0.21_pre14666.ebuild mythtv-0.21_pre14480-r1.ebuild

["Alec Warner" <antarus@gentoo.org>]

On 10/15/07, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Jonathan Adamczewski wrote:
> > Doug Goldstein wrote:
> >
> >> That's what this commits review list feels like.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > Nearly every suggestion (from Donnie and others) has been over some
> > issue that relates directly to either correctness or maintainability.
> > It doesn't matter if you can "rattle off capabilities to a millimeter" -
> > if they're not documented somewhere (like, say, in the comments of the
> > ebuild) then the maintainer that comes after you gets to go and break it
> > all over again.
> >
> >
> > jonathan.
> >
> Correctness? Fine. Go ahead. Stick $(use_enable xvmc) into the ebuild.
> Do it. I dare you. Then try to compile.
>
> Guess what? When it blows up... that's called INcorrect. The opposite of
> the right thing.
>
> The maintainer who comes after me would be someone with a experience
> with the package. Some bumkin isn't going to come to maintain package
> XYZ unless they know or use the package, and guess what? That means
> experience.

I think this assumption is false.  People maintain packages they don't
know the intricate details of all the time.  You are of course, free
to ignore any and all suggestions offered; but you are not allowed to
silence them.

-Alec
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