Re: Package Review Stats for the week ending January 18th, 2009

[Andreas Thienemann <andreas bawue net>]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> > If you don't want to enhance your packaging skills around RPM, you
> > simply must not be a package maintainer. Go and orphan your packages,
> > if you want to focus just on upstream.
> 
> This pretty definitely shows you have not the faintest idea of what
> you're talking about.

Au contraire. I believe Robert knows pretty much what he's talking about. 
Even though his form is not always what I consider cordial, the content of 
his mails and his reasoning is sound.


> Should you prod Behdad sufficiently to make him do exactly that, you'd
> be on the shit list of a lot of people, me included (and I suspect that
> would include releng and most of qa).

No need for shitlists. Please read _again_ what exactly Robert is 
advocating.

I'll even repeat it for you:

	Go and orphan your packages, if you want to focus just on 
	upstream.

He's not advocating forcing people out or forcing them to orphan packages. 
What he suggests is that people wanting to concentrate on upstream 
development are able to do that without being burdened by maintaining 
packages for distributions.




regards,
 andreas