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Re: Machine maintainer veto.

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: munroesj at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com
Cc: Richard Earnshaw <Richard dot Earnshaw at foss dot arm dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh dot poyarekar at gmail dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 00:17:22 -0400
Subject: Re: Machine maintainer veto.
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On 06 Jul 2015 13:09, Steven Munroe wrote:
> It takes at least two to be constructive. Some like argue perfection or
> require convincing everyone (not just GLIBC community members) to change
> what they are already doing to a more "correct" way. Like saying users
> are stupid and they doing it wrong is not constructive. 

it doesn't logically follow that a bad solution should be deployed purely
because users can't be bothered to improve their practices.  so attempting
to justify a change based purely on "this is the only API users will use"
doesn't really fly in my mind.

(don't try and extrapolate this into specifics on the ppc/hwcaps issue as
that is a waste of time -- this thread is talking generalities.)
-mike

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References:
- Machine maintainer veto.
  - From: Carlos O'Donell
- Re: Machine maintainer veto.
  - From: Siddhesh Poyarekar
- Re: Machine maintainer veto.
  - From: Carlos O'Donell
- Re: Machine maintainer veto.
  - From: Richard Earnshaw
- Re: Machine maintainer veto.
  - From: Steven Munroe

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