Re: Re: cvs: pear /Net_SMTP package.php

<jon@php.net> wrote : > 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. It is your problem if you sleep while others work. :) > 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. I also think he is having a bad day, that's not his usual tone. Maybe he didn't sleep enough :) Still, I think it is a good thing that someone takes care of all this, even if some mistakes are made from time to time while trying to fix issues. And I feel confident in Lukas taking care of this. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam