On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 06:01 +0100, Steve Long wrote: > Stephen Bennett wrote: > > Not everyone sees that as a reason not to use a potentially useful > > piece of software. We're not debian. > > Could you clarify whether this is indeed a Gentoo QA issue, or in fact a > licensing issue? If the latter case, this discussion should prob'y go to > the new -project ml if and when, or indeed the user forums.
The "problem" with skype is really a problem with our policy. The policy is really designed for open source software which we can actually "fix" when we find a problem. With the closed-source stuff, our policy should be a bit more lax since we're at the mercy of the upstream. Also, remember that our policy says that 30 days is *suggested* before stabilization. The maintainer has the authority to ask for stabilization sooner, even the same day the package is put into the tree, if there is sufficient reason for doing so. > As for potentially useful, so was Internet Explorer, last time I looked at > what you could do with its Object Model. I still ain't voting to bring it > to Gentoo.. ;) Please refrain from these kinds of "arguments" that have no technical bearing. Internet Explorer doesn't even *run* on Gentoo. If it did, it would likely be in the tree since quite a few people would likely use it, even if just for testing. I know that if I were able to test things on IE from Linux without having to fire up VMware that I would be quite happy. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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