Re: "testing" improvements
En réponse à Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>:
> > It looks like you always end up with such statements with
> > anyone trying to politely discuss. You are pretty predictable.
>
> You're surprised that I say the same thing every time this comes up?
No. I'm surprised that you take it as an offence (at least, I feel
you do), but I do not indent to.
I'd be glad to hear from your impressions about what you implemented
and what you think that works and didn't work, if you're working
on changing things and so on. Or even that it is right and
everything is in developers hands.
> > > Stop trying to find excuses to avoid having to fix the things you
> know
> > > need fixing. glibc needs fixing. debian-installer needs fixing.
> The
> > > 700
> > > packages listed at http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical need
> > > fixing.
> > > Every package that's not installable, or that's out of date on
> some
> > > architecture needs fixing.
> > Yeah, and next time, I think you're going that anyone should be
> > able to get into fixing glibc ....
>
> No, I won't, because there are _plenty_ of other things that need
> fixing.
> If you don't want to help the glibc hackers, then choose something
> else.
>
> That said, helping the glibc hackers is simply not that hard. The only
> advantage anyone else has over you at hacking glibc is that they've
> already spent the time and energy to learn about how it works. And
> since
> it's free software, there is _nothing_ stopping you from doing the
> same.
>
> Stop talking and go fix some bugs.
Can't I do both? ;-)
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Jérôme Marant <jerome@marant.org>
<jerome.marant@free.fr>
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