[Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

Fri Mar 25 10:53:16 CET 2011

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:37, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
+> Quote: rdalverny wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 10:30
+>
+>> Wait. What you seem to forget is that this is not only about rights
+>> but too about duties. The "freedom" above comes from people that take
+>> their time to craft and package things, so they are verily in their
+>> right and duty to make choices - documented, discussed, agreed. And
+>> it's not because just one or two people argue and argue the contrary
+>> that the maintainer should ... "obey".
+>
+> As a general principle in a community that values freedom anything that
+> doesn't affect others negatively shouldn't be arbitrarily restricted.
+
+You can't force a maintainer to do something you want and that she
+judges not right for her set of packages. At best you can ask a
+community (council) decision about that, and that may lead to you (or
+someone else) taking the maintainance of the said package.
+
+If you can't work here by that, or if you are not happy with how
+things go here, you are free to discuss this openly with members of
+the council or of the board to sort it out.
+
+Here was only a discussion where you get overly alarmed without any
+necessity when people start to answer their views contrary to your
+plans. Nowhere was a decision to block you. If you wanted a consensus,
+you've seen in this thread what it was; that still doesn't block you
+from doing/pushing your changes as long as they don't break anything.
+If you wanted a decision, you'd have to formally ask for that the
+packagers team, or the council, or the board: that was not done.
+
+So what are you complaining about?
+
+> Also I never asked anyone else to do anything, I said I would reenable
+> qt3-devel unless there is a COMPELLING (i.e. blocking) reason not to do
+> so.
+
+So why all the fuss? Take the maintainance of the package, make your
+changes, submit it and here you are.
+
+romain
+