On 07/02/2017 11:05 PM, Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote:
On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 10:39 PM, NicoHood <archlinux@nicohood.de> wrote:
So why are we so resistant against those suggestions? Those are good and valid, no matter who this guy is and how he interacts with people. From the technical point of view he is right. And we all should care for our users, because we are responsible for them.
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2017-July/043860.html
You know I thought about the factuality part of the emails writing my response too, and it turned out I couldn't criticise the content for anything but harshness. This is going to an interesting place, and we'll have to decide how we can deal with content like this in a way that tells the source to go f themselves while paying actual attention to valid criticism...
cheers! mar77i
You are right. I think this has all its past and we should just go on and fix our Distribution. He reminds me a bit of Torvalds, from what I've heard. It has its pro and its cons. We should use those suggestions, as they are really helpful. Actually it is really good to have someone carefully reviewing and watching our PKGBUILDs. As another idea we maybe could consider to write more precise PKGBUILD standards for security measures, which e.g. define that HTTPS must be used, whenever available etc. This way people like him can be of a huge help and we can improve our PKGBUILD security continuously. This would help everyone. How about that? ~Nico