From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [212.60.202.196] (helo=mail.kernelconcepts.de) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IDeiQ-0006Jt-Tx; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:07:39 +0200 Received: from [212.60.202.194] (helo=[192.168.2.131]) by mail.kernelconcepts.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IDenu-0002Qb-DQ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:13:18 +0200 Message-ID: <46A72E54.5030800@kernelconcepts.de> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:04:52 +0200 From: Florian Boor User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <46A60832.30203@dominion.kabel.utwente.nl> <46A7230E.6000707@kernelconcepts.de> <46A7262F.1080406@dominion.kabel.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: <46A7262F.1080406@dominion.kabel.utwente.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Cc: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions Subject: Re: mtn disapprove d7758e2637918ff4035244d64fb7227f6cf833ad, was Re: [oe-commits] org.oe.dev phoneserver: Add patch for FIC GTA01 support. X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:07:39 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Koen Kooi schrieb: > You are right that it's more productive to fix small errors than to disapprove, but: > I did that the first few times with PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE}", and people still keep > adding it, so now I'm doing dissaprove + mail to oe-devel to raise awareness. > Fixing errors afterwards is only productive if people learn from it and stop making the > same error again, which wasn't the case here. didn't I react on the mail to the list? Did I introduce a similar bug lately? I really do not appreciate if people revert a complete change for the lack of five bytes. That wastes too much of precious time - I can live with that, but I do not want such reactions causing other contributors to run away. Greetings Florian -- The dream of yesterday Florian Boor is the hope of today Tel: +49 271-771091-15 and the reality of tomorrow. Fax: +49 271-771091-19 [Robert Hutchings Goddard, 1904] florian.boor@kernelconcepts.de 1D78 2D4D 6C53 1CA4 5588 D07B A8E7 940C 25B7 9A76