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On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:53:54 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 11:15:07 +0100 Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: |
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[...] |
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> > (Sometimes it's even |
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> > me who's doing the touching!) My instinctive reaction is always, |
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> > "can't everybody calm down and be happy somebody is doing your work |
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> > for you?" The answer to this question is, of course, that it depends |
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> > who the developer is and how competent you are. |
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> > |
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> > So, nothing new here. I don't want to bikeshed about it. Business as usual. |
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> > I thought I'd do something loose and informal to rectify the problem. |
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> > See my package-policy.txt on my developer space: |
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> > |
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> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~zx2c4/package-policy.txt |
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> It is likely that nobody will read this file. If you want to allow |
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> people to modify your stuff faster than the policy above says, put |
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> this somewhere in ebuilds as a comment. If you want to deny people |
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> to touch your stuff when they are within the rules, you can't do |
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> that (e.g. if you will go AWOL, your packages will still need care). |
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A field in metadata.xml was suggested in another thread [1]. Looks |
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like proper way to go. |
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[1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/fb62556cfad6b19739e071e4502a27ba |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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