3/23/2006
0-day release notice bugs being created
I think this is going to be my new solution to combating this issue. For each bug and subsequent dup bug I get for 0-day notices I will just wait that many days before actually adding the package to Portage… irregardless if I have bumped the package locally for myself.
Now obviously stupidity has to be punishable so for every release that the ChangeLog is copied and pasted into the body of the bug report and the following or similar appears:
“Thanks to Doug Goldstein ‘cardoe$gentoo&org’ for his contributions to this release.”
and you assign the bug to me… I will wait a week to add the new version to Portage.
This solution probably won’t help but annoy me and I annoy you. I’ll always win because I have the commit access.
Then again I just hit Flameeyes with a 0-day report… but that was on a patch. Oh well.. he can punish me now.
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March 23rd, 2006 at 4:07 pm
I have power, you don’t. Nah, nah, nah. If you are so annoyed a healthier thing to is move on to something else.
March 24th, 2006 at 4:16 am
Hey! I think that can be annoying, but a lot of people don’t read your blog, so they can be punished without knowing it.
Yeah, I already know that not knowing the law is not an excuse for that… but anyways…
April 20th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Wow, settle down, Sparky.
The ‘you’ that you’re trying to annoy probably includes many more people than you realize. People that don’t expect a 0-day package release, but maybe for whom anytime within three months would be fine.
How ’stupid’ do you have to be to become punishable by your immaturity? In order to get to that point, these people would have had to be smart enough to install an operating system on their computer, smart enough for an OS install that isn’t one of the easiest to accomplish, smart enough to attempt to install a package themselves, smart enough to realize and care that an improved version of an application was available for their system (thereby demonstrating understanding of both what a ‘package’ is and also its purpose), and smart enough to realize that there is a mechanism for reporting issues with their current setup. I wonder what percentage of the computing population is that ’stupid’?
While a 0-day release bug is certainly rude and unrealistic, your fragile ego is making you a poor ambassador for the Gentoo community.
Either grow some backbone, or change your name to maintainer-needed. You’re not helping.