Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilisation procedure

[William Hubbs]

Hi Daniel,

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:55:09AM -0800, Daniel Campbell wrote:
> Agreed. For most of my packages, I really don't mind since we're all
> working on Gentoo together, but it'd be super helpful if I was simply
> notified in the event that a package I maintain has gotten a security
> bump, patch, or stabilization. Sure, 'git log' and 'git blame' can
> explain a few things, but if I was going to edit a package, I have the
> maintainer's e-mail available right there in metadata.xml. To me it's a
> courtesy that should be a requirement by default, while devs that don't
> care can use whatever means we agree upon to indicate that they don't care.

If you are not the maintainer or a member of the maintaining project,
contacting the maintainer of a package before you touch it is already
required by default and has been since I can remember [1]. I have
noticed that some developers do not follow this; that is a different
issue.


It would be nice to have a way in metadata for maintainers to show that
they are ok with others working on their packages so that if they go
unresponsive we don't have to wait 2-4 weeks before we can do anything.

William

[1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-maintenance/