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From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA last rites for media-gfx/viewer
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:32:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ws08mfmp.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B352204.5020901@gentoo.org> (Samuli Suominen's message of "Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:35:16 +0200")

>>>>> "Samuli" == Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> writes:

>> The QA team should generate more patches and fewer kills.

Samuli> Manpower. Feel free to join up and help. A handful of people
Samuli> can't fix everything.

It would have taken him less effort to fix the bug and commit a new
ebuild when he first saw it than it must have taken to file a bug
report and then, months later, kill the package.

And if he doesn't want to be the one to fix it, it is better to just
leave it alone.

Samuli> If it's broken, it shouldn't be in tree, simple as that.

As a user, I can only say bullshit to that.

Packages should not go away over trivial issues.  That is harmful,
not helpful.

-JimC
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James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6



  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-27 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-23 23:29 [gentoo-dev] QA last rites for media-gfx/viewer Diego E. Pettenò
2009-12-25 19:43 ` James Cloos
2009-12-25 20:35   ` Samuli Suominen
2009-12-27 18:32     ` James Cloos [this message]
2009-12-27 22:18       ` Tomáš Chvátal
2009-12-25 20:41   ` Jeremy Olexa
2009-12-25 23:58     ` Petteri Räty
2009-12-26 17:32 ` Jeroen Roovers
2010-01-05  0:33   ` Thilo Bangert
2010-01-05 16:37     ` Jeroen Roovers

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