Re: MIPS port backlog, autobuilder machines and some arrogance
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:10:53PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > > It's been proven plenty of times that whenever we have task depend
> > > > on a single person doing it, the lack of redundancy comes back and
> > > > bites us in the ass whenever there's the slightest bit of a problem.
> > > Why do you think that contributes _anything_ to the discussion? It's not
> > > remotely insightful, rather it's trivially obvious.
> > This NIH attitude is really laughable.
>
> NIH usually stands for "Not Invented Here", meaning someone presuming
> other people are wrong, and that only ones own ideas are right. You'll
> note, though, that what I said was that your claim was *trivially
> obvious*, which is quite a distance from wrong.
I was responding to your saying that it was "too hard", but you conveniently
removed that part of the quote.
I don't believe in such a defeatist attitude because the relevant people
(delegate and/or the leader) haven't provided any evidence to support that
claim, and my past experience with similar tasks and with task management
in general in Debian makes me think quite the contrary.
> > I didn't, however, expect that you'll actually try to sell this kind of
> > bullshit as an actual argument that we need to trust the DPL who is
> > supposedly asserting that things simply had to be done the wrong way.
>
> No, I'm asserting that people who don't understand what's going on
> well enough to contribute anything other than trite cliches shouldn't
> contribute anything. If you can contribute something more valuable than
> trite cliches, please do; but so far, in this thread, you simply haven't.
Whereas all you've provided is an assertion that nobody knows anything about
the topic except the people that happen to be directly involved in it right
now, which is patently unsupported. (That and an ad hominem attack as an
added bonus.)
--
2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Reply to: