Re: cvs: pear /Net_SMTP package.php

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 07:13:12PM +0100, Lukas Smith wrote: > >Three things here: > > > >1. Thanks for removing the broken release. > >2. Please don't touch my package's code without giving me a fair > > chance to fix it myself. > >3. If you're going fix a 'minor issue', please don't change the > > argument such that it takes me a few minutes to realize why > > 'package.php commit' no longer works. > > > >In short, you *should* have removed the release, but you should *not* > >have done anything else. > > Ok, I never will .. anyways I will stop tip toeing around what people > care to do, care to read, care to acknowledge, care to thank for, care > to slap people for. > > From now on I will take the approach of I will only consider requests > from the lead maintainer. I will then evalutate if I care. > > This means that if you want me to care about a broken release you will > have to ask me before hand. Furthermore I will then decide if I care > based on a number of facts: like do I see that the developer is asking > me to wipe his butt or is the developer just asking for help if a little > mistake happend to slip through etc. > > I understand that you are miffed about me changing your code. In > retrospect I should have bother attempting to fix things for your users. > I dont see how this could have taken ages to figure out you causing > problems since you also get commit messages. Alas I will not bother in > the future. > > Anyways I am beyond pissed with all of this and I will need a cooling > down period. I mean people get on about version naming yet nobody has > doen anything serious about it, neither in pear-dev or in the group. Yet > everybody tells me we should suspend this we should suspend that. > Meanwhile I, and others who care for QA, get called pedantic, power > hungry maniacs. Um, before everyone starts thinking that Lukas and I are headed toward pistols at dawn, I just want to reiterate that I was only annoyed at the code being changed without having a fair chance at fixing it myself (I was asleep when all of this happened). Lukas definitely made the correct decision to remove the package release. I gather that the rest of the ranting above is just Lukas having a bad day. I didn't mean to incite so much non-code-related strong language here. -- Jon Parise (jon@php.net) :: The PHP Project (http://www.php.net/)