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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] eclasses v3 released
From:       Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk () prosalg ! no>
Date:       2001-10-01 11:31:02
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Disclaimer: I do not intend to stir any fuzz with this. Please be
overbearing when reading it.

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:54:49 +0200
Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I understand and agree that verwilst (or anyone else) shouldn't be using

> eclasses or his day-today work and all his ebuilds. I do think he should
help 
> me test them, because two testers are always much better than one. I 
> introduced Verwilst to eclasses wih this purpose, perhaps I was wrong to
do 
> so on his first day as a Gentoo developer. Since you hink I should do
this 
> strictly alone, I will.

If what drobbins really mean is that Dan should be doing this job alone
without any help from other developers, then I strongly disagree. The
major point about any community project like this is teamwork. That is
what attracts developers. We are not attracted to a TODO-list where we can
pick our tasks and complete them in isolation. That is not what Gentoo
should be about.


If on the other hand, drobbins' argument is against Dan seemingly
recruiting any and all, or newcomers to Gentoo, then I understand it a bit
more. While I still think Dan should be entitled to recruit the help of
any of the other Gentoo developers, Dan should perhaps have handled things
a bit differently and required that Verwilst sent the eclass-based ebuilds
directly to himself instead checking it into CVS.


On a more practical note, I really think major changes like this chould be
done on CVS branches, so that we can afford doing really heavy changes
without fear of troubling our users.


Kind regards,

Karl T


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