From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 61850 invoked by alias); 5 May 2018 05:27:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 61840 invoked by uid 89); 5 May 2018 05:27:28 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_SHORT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=monster, Hx-languages-length:1719, faithfully, faith X-HELO: mail-wm0-f53.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f53.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f53.google.com) (74.125.82.53) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 05 May 2018 05:27:27 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f53.google.com with SMTP id w194so6740783wmf.2 for ; Fri, 04 May 2018 22:27:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=yw4UYik78fcELxFQr7SRJQ2Svvuaa3IeCaN6LhUuXUQ=; b=ST0/6kVGH7IjSmqd0yV2a1zRuzZov+P1uXkkyYKbTOrxJjDGgHaH/2AEWa+Ma6U2kg dJRn8hBhprcoZJ03okW9Lr71zJQkEOsM2D0CxvpVnjIBvErgfiPmeSAqg5zxpZ4KlCkW s3l5daQa8K/K+s2IbQ+j+wyqGWcLIn5fi1s6RAeLgUgSBbIvd0End3wdnPkOViiVHQOt /zY8MMhJubDR4VLqHCVS2knkVVViH923N6snxTxQu7P2PhydixlWaQAM7VQ8wM1rBvh8 TaXXzz/g7PqC+5sB/m2b7rug5epnkj9AZ556noj27+W5dtUlN7dlbFPWMa5wD9AHyaBg Puhg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALQs6tCn7+bA97HlPrCPxlosEFm9II38qqUw0RLZbj3iWW170tdKU5EN a4RNrNh3AlMsgQ75dphxTPPrCtzO X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZoxpBlh5EiT6zkyVlgyOUVUNUXFJiiHQBKufpuUtMUGcjaM/HELOUt0bMlk/JATdgNOoUbrMA== X-Received: by 10.28.40.6 with SMTP id o6mr12363696wmo.151.1525498044955; Fri, 04 May 2018 22:27:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2003:ee:63c8:2701:d993:67ab:ab1:a315? (p200300EE63C82701D99367AB0AB1A315.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [2003:ee:63c8:2701:d993:67ab:ab1:a315]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id z18-v6sm23228174wrc.36.2018.05.04.22.27.23 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 04 May 2018 22:27:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Request new Ruby release To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5aed015b.1c69fb81.6a87b.524b@mx.google.com> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: Date: Sat, 05 May 2018 05:27:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5aed015b.1c69fb81.6a87b.524b@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-05/txt/msg00085.txt.bz2 On 5/5/2018 2:56 AM, Steven Penny wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2018 15:16:49, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> I do not see you doing any package activity release, so you should >> refrain to >> comment on how we (package maintainers) use our own spare time for this >> project. > > such comments are perfectly acceptable if maintainers are acting in bad > faith > with regard to packages. no one is perfect, certainly not myself. and if > the > person in question is a maintainer of an important package, for example > GCC or > Ruby, it is not acceptable for them to let a year or 2 go by without an > update. I am still waiting that you show your code. Jon Yong is doing an hell of job taming a monster program, and your comments are NOT appropriated. > if they are worried about bugs, cygwin has a system in place for many > years now > to deal with that. you make a package "[test]", so that people can test > it. if > a maintainer cannot faithfully keep up with a package at least once a year, > that person should step aside as im sure other would be willing (myself > included) to take up maintainership of said packages. I do not see a huge queue of volunteers, and I do not see your maintaining efforts. >> Please note that sometime, things are broken upstream >> and it takes time and it could require not available capability to >> solve the issues. >> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2018-03/msg00014.html > > sorry, did you really just invoke fortran as a serious argument? fortran is > arguably the oldest programming language still in use, if you can even > call it This only show how ignorant you are about programming language and their usage. Clearly you are not an engineer. Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple