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

[Romain d'Alverny]

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