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Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases



On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:12:16AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:59:30PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:10:29PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > > >   Feb  6th, Joey mails indicating he'd like to release the update
> > > > >             at the end of Feb (27th/28th) or a little bit later at
> > > > >             the end of February. "let me know if this is ok for
> > > > >             you - or if this is not ok for you"
> > > > I note that it took you 16 days to reply, 
> > > It wasn't a reply to Joey's mail, which I hadn't thought had needed a
> > > reply.
> > <expletive>. You have even _QUOTED_ the direct question asked by Joey.
> > Will you think questions as "not needing a reply" as a DPL as well?
> 
> Like I said, I didn't think it needed a reply.

Am I the only one who sees this as a misconception of epic proportions?

> I'm not perfect, and I
> do misread things occassionally -- I quoted the above, because I just
> went back and looked at Joey's original mail, and I thought that was
> relevant, both in the the fact that a request for a response was made,
> and it wasn't indicated that it was particularly important.

Hm. You consider a timely point release unimportant?

> > Did you talk to the stable release manager before trying to reduce his
> > work load?
> 
> Of course I did.

In the last four weeks?

Greetings
Marc

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