Re: build sherrif-ery - nautilus-media fails to configure

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 22:00 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:51:19 -0500, Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:50 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 20:13 +0000, Andy Balaam wrote:
> > > > Can anyone be a sherrif?
> > >
> > > Oh, and to answer this more explicitly: anyone can be a nag-style
> > > sheriff (like you have just been- kudos to stepping up), but in the
> > > strictest sense of the word, a sheriff is empowered to also revert
> > > changes or make fixing commits, which is privilege no one at all has
> > > right now.
> > >
> > 
> > I nominate Luis for sheriff!
> 
> This would make more sense if I knew a damn thing about auto* :) In
> most of the cases I've seen in the past few weeks, the only thing I
> would have been able to do was revert the commit. Then again, that may
> be the kind of sheriff more maintainers are comfortable with.

Is this really an enormous problem? In many cases you can probably get
help from people you trust (given your judgement of the problem vs the
solution), and in other cases you can just revert.

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