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Vigilante releases (was: RRDs created, never updated)

list Henrik Størner
Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:56:21 +0000 (UTC)
Message-Id: <gevp65$did$user-e356fad9864f@xymon.invalid>

OK, I'm not the type who gets offended easily, but this did make my 
blood pressure go up a bit:

In <user-8a95fe39c5e0@xymon.invalid> "T.J. Yang" <user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid> writes:
Jon Boede wrote:
Out of random curiosity... why hasn't anybody applied the all in one =
patch and put a hobbit 4.2.1 or something up on SourceForge??
done.
1. 4.2.1 tar ball is here:
[snip]
2. 4.2.1 Readme file.
[snip]


TJ, I hope You did this with the best of intentions. But I'm really 
offended that You did it without at least telling me about it first. 
My personal e-mail address is well known, and dropping me a mail 
first would have been the polite thing to do. If You'd done that,
such a release could have been done quickly with my "official"
blessing.

Instead, You've made me angry and created a mess - there's now one
more place where some random version of Hobbit can be found. And on
top of it all You've given it the look of an official patch by 
putting a "4.2.1" label on it.


All I'm asking for is that all of you *think* about what you do.
If you're frustrated about the next release not arriving, do
something to move it forward - i.e. grab the current source-trunk
from the Subversion archive, use it and send bug reports. Or
patches. Or write docs.


Henrik (in a rather frustrated mood)