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

[Yaro Kasear]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Christopher Reimer <mail at creimer.net>
wrote:

> 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
>

This really has nothing to do with the Arch community.

Arch ARM is its own project. Now, I'm not a TU or a developer, but in my
view trying to complain to an upstream project when downstream doesn't do
what a contributor wants reflects more badly on Arch's reputation.

Even if people on Arch cared, what could they even do about it? Are you
expecting the Arch developers to somehow pull some imaginary authority over
the Archlinux ARM project? That'd be even worse to Arch's reputation if
they though they could just boss around forks of Arch.

The maintainer of a project has zero obligation to take on pull requests.
Complaining to Archlinux users about it won't change it, especially when
his response to your whining on his GitHub page was reasonable.

If you don't like it, feel free to fork Archlinux ARM. Nothing's stopping
you. But stopping filling this list with nonsense and your personal
problems with the developers of projects Arch has nothing to do with.

Yaro