[arch-general] Weird reaction to pull request over at Arch Linux ARM

[Christopher Reimer]

Hello list,

I'd like to get some feedback on this pull request discussion over at 
Arch Linux ARM: https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/pull/1444 
(Backup: http://pastebin.com/x8H0mNiE)

Short summary: I wanted to contribute a simple patch to enable support 
for Banana Pi hardware. I tried that a few years back and got besides 
some other concerns the answer that it cannot be added, because at this 
time there were no upstream support and I accepted that.

This is no longer the case, so I thought it must be possible to add 
support now.

I also noticed a few other pull request trying exactly that, which were 
instantly closed by Kevin Mihelich without any reasonable explanation.
That's why I expected some resistance and prepared myself to 
counterargument a few of his concerns.

And I think I did quite good. Good enough to make him ignore me.

Why am I writing this to the Arch Linux mailing list? Well, for quite 
some time I thought Arch Linux ARM is Arch Linux. And I think there are 
a lot more out there who think so.
Therefore I think behavior like this could hurt the overall reputation 
of Arch Linux. Especially if a future goal of Arch Linux might be ARM 
support and Kevin Mihelich somehow joins the team.

Did I miss something? Do I expect too much? I don't know.

Thanks

Christopher Reimer