On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o> wrote:
> one thing that could perhaps speed up gentoo is specifying at what point
> or what steps are required before it is ok to "step on others toes".
>
> we have the QAcanfix keyword, for bugs where QA "threatens" to just fix
> the bug if the maintainer doesn't react timely... but it appears to be the
> tree could generally move faster, if there was an agreement as to when
> somebody is allowed to fix another maintainers stuff.
>
> if we had a formal process in place, one could always execute on that and
> fix the issue oneself, instead of having the cheap excuse of "well,
> <slowguy> hasnt fixed bug xxx yet, so i cant move".
>
> this process should ideally be very lean and short - as to not discourage
> these type of changes.

Heh.

I always liked the old policy: Don't break stuff.  If you're sure you
know what you're doing, and you're not going to break stuff, then do
what needs to be done.

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