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On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> Moreover, the maintainers may have a few changes stashed for the next |
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> bump to avoid people rebuilding the package unnecessarily. |
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I know I sometimes keep bugs open for precisely this opportunity. |
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Sometimes I even have updated ebuilds/patches staged and just waiting |
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for the next bump. If I know a bump is coming soon I'm not going to |
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rev the ebuild. |
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It is one thing if you ping the maintainer and nobody hears from them |
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for a week. It is another to do a revbump without any notice at all. |
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If a package is sluggish and you want to help it along, then add |
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yourself as a maintainer, ideally after a brief chat with the current |
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maintainer(s). That fixes the problem for the long-term. |
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Rich |
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