On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:25:49PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:55:01AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > And what should my punishment be, O God of Earth and Altar? > > That you should get it right next time. If this exact same problem happens again, I will. Otherwise you'll have to just trust in my damnable judgement again, or *gasp* participate in the testing of unstable XFree86 packages. > > Perhaps you missed the bits where: > > 3) said "Since it's my package, I take full responsibility for the > > fuckup." > > I hadn't seen you say that, no. Message-ID: <[🔎] 20011017023549.A12139@deadbeast.net> > All I'd seen you say was that it was > everyone else's fault for not changing the severity of the bugs out > from under you, ..except I didn't say that > or for being so stupid as to think removing quotes from > a random file in /etc was difficult and annoying, ...or that > or insinuating that people shouldn't be criticising if *they're* not > maintaining X. ...or that. Yes, I did say things that could be distorted into the statements you've made above. But let's be clear on who is saying what. > So if you're taking responsibility, what is your "response" going > to be? My response is the same it has been since the problem was brought to my attention; to fix it in 4.1.0-8. > What's going to avoid this happening again, either in X, or > elsewhere? Or why shouldn't it be avoided in future? Or maybe problems like this can't be avoided...not entirely, anyway. > To throw an idea out for discussion, what about automatically upgrading > a bug to "serious" if it's minor/normal/important and has been reported > over, say, six times? [0] Oh, cool, so next time someone is angry with me for not prioritizing a bug as highly as he wants me to, he just files 5 duplicates. Great idea. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you make people think they're Debian GNU/Linux | thinking, they'll love you; but if branden@debian.org | you really make them think, they'll http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | hate you.
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