[arch-general] mandriva beat us to a new version

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Thu Jul 29 20:06:07 EDT 2010


On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Caleb Cushing<xenoterracide at gmail.com> 
  wrote:
> Just so you know.... I volunteered to be a junior dev and was
> rejected. I have ~400
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&L=2&K=xenoterracide
> packages on the AUR. I file out of date packages on on Arch every day.
> I think I filed ALL the rebuild bugs (for perl- packages ) for 5.12.
> I've been running it for 3 months. I think I've done everything I
> /can/ to get this rolled out. The fact is the small, very small amount
> of work that has yet to be done... I can't do.

The goal of Arch Linux is not to package things faster than everybody 
else.  The goal of Arch is to make the distribution that the developers 
want to use.  It just happens that Arch developers like having most 
things packaged quickly so that is what we do.

If we happen to be delayed updating something, it is either because no 
developer has the time to update it or no developer particular cares 
about updating it.  We develop this distribution in our own free time so 
will get to things when we want to, not when demand dictates it.

And yes you have filed bugs about rebuilds, and yes you applied to be a 
junior dev.  However, your demanding attitude in repeated emails with 
regards to this update means that we would much rather have a delayed 
perl release that have you on the developer team.  We rate not being an 
ass much high than technical skill when selecting people when selecting 
people to "work" with.

Allan


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