On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:28:27PM +0200, Sebastian Rother wrote:

> Theo wrote:
> >Yes, and sometimes tough love is required.
> >
> >Perhaps whoever the maintainer is will merge this in time.
> >
> >Perhaps not.
> >
> >Let me pose a question:
> >
> >    Would you rather have a good release that has good quality
> >    integration between packages
> >
> >or
> >
> >    One that has the latest python?
> 
> Let me pose a counter question:
> 
> Who needs "working" ports or a good quality integration between packages
> f.e. for python if each kid from ghana could crash your webapplication or
> whatever you build with python.
> 
> Some of us do have internet Theo...
> 
> >You can't always have both.
> 
> You are right but we could try?       
> OpenBSD isn't bug free either but you still try to do your best (and you
> do pretty good! all of you developers do a very excellent job!).
> 
> The last sentence with the "you can't always have both" reminds me more to
> Linus then to you Theo...

The point is that if you try to do too much during relese time, you
end up having accomplished nothing. 

        -Otto

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