Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council 2020 / 2021 election - Nominations Now Open

[David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, 2020-06-23 at 19:58 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> On 2020-06-23 19:34, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-06-23 at 19:17 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> > > We haven't had a new EAPI in a while. I hope it stays that way,
> > 
> > Are you saying you're against fixing bugs in the current EAPI and
> > would
> > prefer ignoring the problems that have been identified so far?
> 
> Have you stopped punching yourself?
> 
> Nice false dichotomy you've set up, let me instead talk about
> something 
> unrelated ...
> > >   and we
> > > might even reduce the amount of active EAPIs even more so that
> > > there's
> > > fewer surprises
> > 
> > Are you going to achieve that by committing more ebuilds using
> > deprecated EAPIs?
> > 
> Ah damn it must feel good to yell at people.
> 
> I know what you mean, you know what you mean, everyone else is most 
> likely confused.
> 
> ... do you think this is a good use of time of the readers of this 
> mailinglist?
> 
> May I suggest that you keep your personal grievances to yourself and 
> possibly, maybe, not bother other people with it? But that's too much
> to 
> ask, and you REALLY like to attack me personally. (Like, I write two 
> emails and BAM there's a gorny trying to throw shade ... which is why 
> I've mostly abstained from mailinglists for a while. Too predictable
> and 
> no useful results)
> 
> So to get back to your first question, if there are useful changes
> then 
> of course we can discuss them. From my point of view that's fixing
> the 
> wrong things (the ebuild format in itself is ... hmm ... not very 
> optimal). And we've backdated changes into existing EAPIs, so if it's 
> "just" a bug the specification could be ammended and problem solve.
> 
> 
> To get back to the issue of personal attacks, I don't particularly
> enjoy 
> your brand of negativity, and would appreciate it if you didn't spray
> it 
> around like a male cat. I doubt you'll even understand this, as
> you've 
> carefully managed to skip any criticism before.
> 
> 
> Oh well, didn't have a proper flamewar in a while. Not going to have 
> one. Sad.
> 
> 
> Be excellent to each other,
> 
> Patrick
> 

Rest assured, those aren't just "personal grievances" of mgorny, lots of
people share them. Maybe time for some introspection on your part?