On Sunday, 02 March 2008 at 21:43, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 18:04 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > Packagers' lack of time or laziness is not a good excuse. If they > > can't fix it, they should seek help either from the PPC SIG or > > upstream. > > I'm inclined to agree, but I'm concerned about how realistic that is, > especially since we encourage people to take responsibility for packages > when they don't even understand the language they're written in and > _can't_ fix things. IMHO every packager should know a bit of C (or whatever language her/his package is written in). > I already see people who should know better complaining about how > building for PPC is 'painful' -- and that kind of attitude has > contributed to the idiocy of letting 'secondary architecture' builds > fail _without_ aborting the main build. I don't want to make matters > worse by increasing the perception that building for PPC is hard. > > If Fedora is after quantity instead of quality in packages and > packagers, then I don't want to make life harder for the PPC folks just > because we think that's a bad choice of priority. I'll tilt at one > windmill at a time, thank you. Hm. I was under the impression that we care about the quality. This, for me, was the selling point of Fedora. Regards, R. -- Fedora contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
