From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PlPch-0002wJ-Hp for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:39:07 +0100 Received: from svr-orw-exc-10.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.58]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1PlPbk-0005Bj-AA from Tom_Rini@mentor.com for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:38:08 -0800 Received: from na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com ([134.86.114.213]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-10.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Fri, 4 Feb 2011 09:38:08 -0800 Received: from [172.30.80.88] ([172.30.80.88]) by na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 4 Feb 2011 10:38:06 -0700 Message-ID: <4D4C3977.8010504@mentor.com> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:37:59 -0700 From: Tom Rini Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <201101271038.18945.ml@vdm-design.de> <4D418914.2030703@mentor.com> <20110203070901.GA11867@denix.org> <4D4AE93E.2020509@mentor.com> <20110203222035.GA19477@denix.org> <4D4B35A7.4040000@mentor.com> <20110204081659.GQ4580@excalibur.local> <20110204090348.GR4580@excalibur.local> <4D4C1464.4030609@mentor.com> In-Reply-To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Feb 2011 17:38:07.0013 (UTC) FILETIME=[4875A550:01CBC492] Subject: Re: bitbake does not fail when QA issues encountered X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:39:07 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/04/2011 08:26 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: [snip] > And yes, I could try to fix these myself. I used to work on everything > and tried to fix things that were left dangling, but some people in > the community are so unforgiving and negative if you make a mistake > (which can happen if you work on something new to you), so I basically > gave up doing that. > (and yes, I know if it is something you're not familiar with a patch > can be posted to the list, but unfortunately lots of times patches > (especially for areas that are less mainstream) the response on posted > patches is nil). I am very sorry you have found this to be the case. This is a problem the project needs to address if we wish to grow and thrive. My google-fu is weak this morning and I can't find the link to an old LMKL post where Linus explains why sometimes it's important to very flame very bad ideas. But I would swear that part of it also did explain that not every single bad idea needs to receive the nuclear treatment. -- Tom Rini Mentor Graphics Corporation