-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/02/2014 02:00 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > On 02/04/14 05:02, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> Projects like the Council, ComRel and QA are there to protect Gentoo; >>> and yes, people are (or should be) lining up to protect Gentoo. >> ... from QA. >> >> You don't seem to understand what Samuli is saying. QA is being used >> as an offensive weapon. It's a stick to bludgeon others with. >> > > Exactly. > > Anyone remembers what happened the last time this was tried? > > The "QA" attempted to force developers who didn't care if removed > ebuilds are recorded in the ChangeLog or > not, even while there was no policy in place that said they should be > recorded there, and nothing was ever broken. > People simply had different workflows. > > The whole existing team died with that debacle. I don't expect it to go > exactly like that, this time, as the issue and > people involved are different, but the point is, nothing good came out > of it. > If the people who insisted they should be recorded there had been in a > productive fashion drive repoman to be > patched for --echangelog, or discuss other solutions, we could have > skipped the useless mudslinging. > > Force is not hardly ever the correct answer. It might work in a > workplace, but not when people are contributing > for free. > So forcing changes into the tree by stabilizing a bunch of new virtuals and adjusting all the rdeps to use them is fine, but forcing discussion is completely inappropriate?
Wow, now that I can see it your way I agree, I'm a horrible person. I'll stick to randomly changing the tree as I see fit with no discussion since forced discussion is so wrong. - -Zero > - Samuli > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTPG34AAoJEKXdFCfdEflKYpUP/1ULS1KEdi2756pxr5Ay8k/G NZJ4LKfXzlAbVOlbhf3splq5NvWEDrItlexXp2rt2QhGUQoNl+4p5gtwPp9j9QBW 8h2OKpveeIF3mxvUnnOyapbeA9PBVoSd5cnRyvATv1g7QqvtFps0+5D61Pl/F9ii PYVbVuWt/FD4kCmNDCNVuwBt9ZR0eBk70cy482JNzJuH9TTFh/c3kU0PqA2CTkNy VVGX62/dWPLjKrJjKLaiRaVEtN7DDFC5yKJJn0wxa2TSg5SvwzZVlotcOE/DTwJv qu0tkBnoPiMnWIV5OWxTBPIOXGRKRXUD6zB3YzPdBISyHGMFsa2KDaDy4/DxsQPX brRg3Rr7D3l/vApFezYyTIC/SGmpGes4muZpI64WlMJf0LciUjocEJSqdxO3SMzo 0umuNi5FymPHnNrRjZV6MEQ6ft1J8QS1r6OPlKefzYV808D/hPV66F15m4CtvraQ DvTWCIAMtKpiLwuvCYSy77u//cLX3F+iLep7U6ciDXRTS7ccLLIW2dZV3C8e8aCA 2fvefbd90AzWG3YByNxMSNvE9GsgKyCWfNe9ndnlpE3Wra/4ROy+dV1MdpOTbfmW 595yRKSlLxqtg4cBFy9kaaHr5fQG+YA0QisnR2Z894VMwYt2+HGa55raGnCJw+Zv oEguJmsrxTKkLOXliLma =rTHl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
