Re: [OT] lazy maintainers
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 04:01:17AM -0500, Jared Johnson wrote:
> I don't see what the point is flaming myth over this. He works hard.
> We don't pay him. He has not abandoned the package. Decisions as to
> what versions to upload are his. There isn't any point discussing
> whether or not kitame should NMU mozilla. It won't happen. Doing an
> NMU without the maintainer's consent and without the maintainer being
> MIA is one of the more evil evil evil things a debian developer can do.
Damn right, I can't beleive that so many people are willing to back a
ruthless highjack for just so they can install some interim point
release of Mozilla. Myth is around, it is HIS package
> For the record, someone mentioned that this thread was all about mozilla
> being outdate... no, this thread was originally about some guy in NM,
> then switched to the completely MIA and irresponsible maintainer of
> abiword. From there some ignorant fellow voiced his approval of
> kitame's attempt to knowingly hijack another maintainer's packages, and
> some others piped in their agreement with the completely falacious
> assumption myth is lazy and that a point-release in the 0.9.x series is
> so important that debian policy and procedures should be ignored to get
> it in a week earlier. Then I chimed in with this lengthy flaimbate.
Again Correct! it's disgusting that this thread has be swung around from
a maintainer who really is neglecting their package without an upload
for 17 months to the baseless implications that Myth is lazy. He wants
crypto in main before more releases I beleive. A maintainer deciding
what select versions to upload cannot be called lazy.
Peter
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