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

[ProgAndy]

Am 27.01.2017 um 21:41 schrieb Eli Schwartz via arch-general:
> On 01/27/2017 01:27 PM, Christopher Reimer wrote:
>> 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.
> Oh, he's ignoring you? I must be imagining this quote:
>
>> I am speaking specifically to what is or will be officially
>> supported.  The community is free to do whatever it wants outside of
>> official support, and many people do this already for a number of
>> boards.  Merely including the package here would imply official
>> support to the vast majority of users despite any 72pt blinking red
>> warnings we could put up state otherwise.  This then leads to said
>> users expecting us to fix their problems.
>>
>> This position is no different than it's been throughout the life of
>> this project.  Official support means an active, contributing
>> developer has access to the hardware and can actively develop
>> packages and address issues for that target.  The hardware that we
>> choose to spend our time and money on is our own choice, not a
>> decision forced upon us.

That seems to be a very reasonable position. If the patch is so simple, 
then why don't you maintain it and provide the necessary binary 
packages? You should be able to create a custom user repository for your 
modifications just like we do for Arch Linux for some kernels.


--
Andreas