On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 07:06:12AM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 02/02/2013 07:03 AM, David Tardon wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 02:08:00AM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > >>When I meet a maintainer in the project that stated to me "I have to > >>talk to my manager first" before upgrading his "component" that > >>rings alarm bells to me, That gives me the feel that they are > >>maintaining their components as a part of their job not because they > >>want to scratch an itch and want to! > >There is a third reason for maintaining a component: it is a dependency > >for another component the packager maintains. This is applicable for > >_all_ packagers, be they from Red Hat or the community. You either > >conveniently omitted this reason to make an argument or never thought of > >it, in which case I respectfully ask you to butt out of this thread > >because you do not know what you are talking about. > > Oh in my case it was an "primary" component no dependency that Red > Hat maintainer could not update until he got approval but for the You generalized one specific case to _all components of all Red Hat maintainers_. When I rejected that generalization, you are counteracting by claiming that my argument does not apply for that one _specific_ case. Sorry, but that is a faulty reasoning. > sake of your argument and concision let's lower my IQ to an rock ( > which I do believe is 20 ) and say I dont have freaking flying idea > what I'm talking about. Is this sarcasm or a personal attack? I am not quite sure... D. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
