I'm puzzled that you thought my statements were a complaint. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020, at 22:30, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Patrick Harper <paia...@fastmail.com> wrote: > > > I mean that all Chromium releases are made available for OpenBSD-stable > > (excluding the previous release at any given time, as with all existing > > port maintenance). > > So you want constant Chromium updates in -stable. > > Who's going to do that? > > Are you going to do it? > > And why pick only on Chromium. Should the same policy be to update all > *all* packages to -stable, all the time, continuously? > > Who's going to do that? > > Won't we need twice as many people, so that -current ports are maintained, > as well as -stable ports? Or if we can't find more people, won't that mean > a reduction in development of packages in the next release? Which means > that -current won't get updated, which means -stable will fall behind > even further? > > You don't seem to know this: -stable is done by *one person* > > > My understanding of -current is that it is meant for testing, not usage. > > -current turns into a -release. So if you don't want good -release, > which will be followed by good -stable, then how do you think this is > going to work? > > You don't think. You just believe deliverable-product you can conceive > of being possible, should be delivered to you. Probably on a silver > plate? > > I believe I've identified the problem precisely. It is not a software > problem, it is a people with out-of-touch expectation problem. It may be > connected to "the less people pay, the more they expect". It might also > be connected to "wow this group looks open, I can participate by demanding > they do things for me". > > >
