On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 04:59:53PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > a) The risk of legitimating the fact that by not acting a developer can
> > block indefinitely the work of other developers (and possibly of the
> > entire project when working on a rather far reaching release goal);
> > I've elaborated more on this subject 3 months ago in [5].
> >
> > [5] http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2011/10/msg00060.html
>
> Not acting!? I can accept not acting fast enough as people might like,
> but not the former.
Fair enough, you're right, "not acting" is not quite correct in this
case. I apologize for my inappropriate use of that expression.
Your wording is indeed more appropriate, but it's also incomplete. In
Debian nobody could be held responsible for not completing some work in
a given time frame; nor could anybody be forced to work for the Project.
At the same time, the inability to complete some work should not be used
to block the work of others. Let's call this "stalling".
I believe you've been stalling --- with NACKs first and now with an NMU
revert --- the work of a co-maintainer of yours and also of the entire
Project, who is trying to reach a legitimate release goal.
I'm convinced that such an attitude actively harms Debian and as such
should not be tolerated. That's why I've asked for tech-ctte technical
judgement on your decision to postpone the upload in wait of full code
review.
> I hate to have to do this, and to be honest I find it petty, but my
> acting can be seen here, obviously not all related to multi-arch, but
> quite many have been, just not in an obvious way:
FWIW, I do not particularly enjoy all this either; in fact, I hate it.
But given all other attempts have failed, I felt it was needed. And it
was now or never.
Cheers.
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