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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:02:17
Message-Id: 50BE2C56.6080709@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds by "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina"
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4 On 12/04/2012 05:01 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote:
5 >
6 > <maintainer> <email>foo@g.o</email> <name>Me</name>
7 > <description>Proxy maintainer, assign bugs to proxied maintainer,
8 > cc on bugs, but feel free to just fix the bugs<description>
9 > </maintainer>
10 >
11 > I feel the description field is already overloaded when there is a
12 > proxy situation, maybe it would be best to define a field for this.
13 > Also english isn't primary language for everyone in the world so if
14 > the policy could actually be specific on this it would benefit
15 > everyone.
16 >
17
18 Please start a new thread, this is unrelated to introducing a _global_
19 policy on that issue.
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22 On 12/04/2012 09:10 AM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote:
23 >
24 > If we are going to document this policy and make it official
25 > (which since it's not documented it's not official) then it only
26 > makes sense to have an opt-out option. I personally don't wish to
27 > see my users suffer for 2-4 weeks because I'm busy and people are
28 > pretending to be polite.
29 >
30 > I have no issue with this policy, but to do it without an explicit
31 > option to opt-out is not acceptable to me.
32
33 This certainly depends on the severity of the bug. If you think my
34 text can be improved please provide a new patch or tell me what
35 exactly you would describe differently.
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37 The vague character of this policy is a bit on purpose, otherwise you
38 would have to describe every possible case. That's not what I want here.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>