>>"John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 09:49 AM, Cosimo Alfarano wrote: >> Why you packaged it ignoring my ITP? >> Why you are telling me it *NOW*, after upload?
John> Because your ITP was filed 4 months ago for only 4 packages. I John> packaged 40. It seemed to me to be so substantially different that John> you were not even proposing the same thing that I was. This is not a contest. If you thought these were so totally different, why did yo close the bug? evidently, you knew that you were hijacking an ITP, and wanted a fait accompli. This is not good. We are, at least theoretically, supposed to be a cooperative community. A mail message coordinating with the ITP issuer would not have cost that much, and gained in goodwill. >> - I spent my time in studing and packaging them John> Yet no packages were uploaded, no status update was logged in John> the bug report, and no information was posted anywhere John> indicating that this was anything but an ITP that someone gave John> up on (like, for instance, 138190) Not good enough. Did you ask? Did you do the least bit of coordination before you took things over? John> Furthermore, since your ITP was filed, I had written the dictdlib API John> for Python that permits me to automatically generate control files and John> .debs from a base of dictionaries such as this. It will permit the John> single source idea while still making it easy to handle upgrades in an John> automated fashion. That would be wonderful were this a pissing contest. When it comes to working as a group, this stinks. [snipped a whole lot of justifications] manoj, dissapointed. -- I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon. Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]