Michael Higgins <li...@evolone.org> posted 20090313140558.048bb...@lappy.evolone.org, excerpted below, on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:05:58 -0700:
> Example? After months of searching for a reason, after seeing many > apparently random updates to a previously stable tree of perl modules, I > happen to keep an IRC session log which shows with this FSCKING USEFUL > TIDBIT: > > "... no motivated developers. the perl team completely vanished." > > Anyone considering using Gentoo should KNOW that, if they use perl in > any substantive way. Wouldn't you agree? Indeed. > Anyway, it's just one example. In this case, I'd be glad to see *some* > documentation of the (apparent total) collapse of the 'perl team' and > what is being proposed to fix the problem, *without* having to become > part of the cabal. And thanks for providing a bit of that documentation here. That is in fact one of the reasons I follow this list, and it has in fact forewarned me of several issues some time before I had to deal with them. I'm thus very happy to have this list to follow. =:^) But I had seen absolutely nothing on the above, the perl team basically disappearing, until your documentation of it in your post. It would have been nice to have seen a bit on the list about it previously, ideally from a dev noting the problem and asking what we can do about it. But given nothing from them (except apparently on IRC), I'll take what I can get, from a user, sometime *after* I should have known about it, as a Gentoo user concerned enough to actually follow the dev list to *get* such information. =:^( So thanks. Dev or nodev, I'm glad there are folks like you around! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
