On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 14:06:27 +1000 "Anthony Towns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 09:52:07PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > > To work efficiently as a team we have to be able to trust each other to > > > perform our own tasks. > > How can we trust someone who isn't one of us? > > Or, to put it in a way that doesn't sound quite so xenophobic, why > should we trust someone who refuses to go through our fairly trivial > identification process (and thus avoids the accountability it attempts > to establish), and who refuses to go through the tasks and philosophy > checks to make sure he can actually function as a part of the project? > I dont think he would have much chance of getting through the NM process with the enemies hes made, do you ? Why does it matter where a bugfix comes from ? Generally speaking, as long as it fixes a bug and doesnt introduce others it should be accepted. (note i havent looked at this specific bug or patche) > Ethan's quite a fan of bug terrorism (continually upgrading or reopening > bugs the maintainer disagrees with) and, apparently, NMU terrorism > (threatening to either NMU your package, or hacking into your package > from another package). Especially the latter isn't something that helps > Debian development. > I dont agree with these actions, i think its his misguided attempts to improve the packages, if he cannot work with the maintainer/developer then i would encourage him to fork the package and distribute it by alternative means. > But hey, politically inspired apoplectic fits is the reason everyone > joins Debian, isn't it? > I thought we all joined to get involved with endless flamewars (sarcasm) There are lots of good people at debian, however sometimes i cant here them for all the shouting. Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
