Re: [OT] lazy maintainers
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:28:37AM -0500, Jared Johnson wrote:
> > A suboptimal package has already been uploaded. Myth may not be able
> > or willing to make any improvements on it right now, but Kitame appears
> > to be able to. As long as Kitame's not going to screw up Myth's future
> > uploads, why shouldn't Kitame upload? Who exactly loses out?
> Except that Myth is able and willing to make improvements, and is doing
> so; he just hasn't uploaded them, which is his decision... at least as
> long as it doesn't screw a release all to hell.
So what? It doesn't matter at all what anyone's doing at home, it matters
what's uploaded. If Kitame's uploading something that's useful to people,
that's a good thing. If Frank (Myth)'s working on stuff on his machine
that'll eventually get uploaded and whip the pants off of Kitame's
uploads, that's even better. There's no reason why they can't both happen.
> Sounds nice, but I wouldn't really like someone packaging the same
> software as me and uploading it as package-foo simply because they
> didn't like the way I did things.
Then, well, get over it.
Technical objections matter. Whether it makes you feel as good as daisies
and ice cream or not, doesn't really. If you've got a real reason not to
upload it, then that'll apply to Kitame too. If it's just because you
don't feel ready to make an upload yet, well, that doesn't necessarily
apply to anyone else. If you've got 7 outstanding release critical bugs,
you really shouldn't be remotely surprised if someone else decides to
try making the damn thing work. [4 against mozilla, 1 against each of
mozilla-browser, mozilla-dev and mozilla-xmlterm]
None of which is to belittle Myth's work on his packages. You don't
have to take NMU's as a criticism or as insinuating that you're not
fulfilling your duties, or anything of the sort; you can just take it
as an indication that someone else values your package enough to go out
of their way to improve it a bit.
Cheers,
aj
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