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On 4 December 2012 08:10, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina <zerochaos@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 12/02/2012 10:21 AM, hasufell wrote: |
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>> As I was told in my recruiting process we usually don't just fix up |
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>> ebuilds of other devs unless it's trivial, very severe or something. |
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>> The usual process is nothing new: try to contact the maintainer, open a |
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>> bug, set a deadline when you will go and fix yourself. |
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>> Only question is now what is a sane soft limit, before you go on and fix |
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>> stuff. |
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>>>From a discussion in #gentoo-dev we thought 2-4 weeks depending on the |
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>> severity of the bug is fine. Ofc this should exclude major changes or |
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>> delicate packages from base-system/core/toolchain. |
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>> I tried to document that a bit: |
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>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445402 |
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>> any objections? This is nothing new, just a clarification of already |
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>> existing policy and a reminder. |
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> If we are going to document this policy and make it official (which |
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> since it's not documented it's not official) then it only makes sense to |
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> have an opt-out option. I personally don't wish to see my users suffer |
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> for 2-4 weeks because I'm busy and people are pretending to be polite. |
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> I have no issue with this policy, but to do it without an explicit |
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> option to opt-out is not acceptable to me. I would suggest something in |
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> the metadata.xml under the maintainer section. We could have a specific |
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> maintainer section : <maintainer><name>help welcome></name></maintainer> |
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> or a specific tag to put under our own maintainer section |
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> <maintainer><name>Rick Farina</name><demeanor>just fix it</demeanor></name> |
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Nobody said the opposite. The devaway message should always be checked |
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for people who appear to be inactive and if they |
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say "Do not touch my packages" then you shouldn't touch them even if |
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he doesn't even touch them himself. Let the retirement team |
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kick him out. |
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There is always the <description> tag on metadata.xml you can use eg |
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<maintainer> |
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<email>foo@g.o</email> |
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<name>Me</name> |
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<description>Primary maintainer but feel free to fix the bugs<description> |
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</maintainer> |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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