Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers

[Bryan Ãstergaard]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 01:57:10PM +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
> Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> > I don't think it's a good idea for devs to be putting stuff into the
> > tree without taking responsibility for it.
> sure I can put myself in there but it will help no one because I cannot test
> the thing. Furthermore I am actually part of maintainer-needed and commit
> fixes there. I am also on the maintainer-needed email alias.
>
> Also maintainer-needed makes obvious to everyone that they do not have to
> ask me to fix sth. or take over the package -> less communication overhead.
Ok, let me see if I can get this straight.. You're saying that
maintainer-needed requires less communication overhead compared to
ebuilds with maintainers assigned? And that maintainer-needed is
therefore better than ebuilds having maintainers.

I don't even want to comment on how insane I find that line of thought..
>
> > I would expect that either
> > the herd is set appropriately (which means either the committer be a
> > member of the herd, or the herd explicitly agree to be proxy),
> which is the case here.
>
Maintainer-needed being the waste basket for unmaintained packages in
the portage tree that doesn't give me a lot of confidence tbh.
> > or the
> > committer be listed as a maintainer email address along with whoever is
> > being proxied.
> the committer in this case has no interest in maintaining the thing. And for
> proxying it does not matter who is proxying.
Of course it matters. There's a big difference between a proxy
maintainer having to ask a *specific* dev that's proxying his ebuild
updates/changes or trying to find a random dev willing to help.
>
> > Further I believe bugs against such packages should be
> > assigned to the @gentoo.org address (proxy maintainer if there is one,
> > herd otherwise), and CC'ed to the proxied maintainer address.
>
> this does not allow the actual maintainer to close the bug and causes a lot
> of bugspam for a person who does not care about it and should be only
> contacted in the end to commit fixes/patches/bumps.
Shouldn't matter too much as a gentoo dev is still responsible for the
package? Nobody shoud be adding stuff to portage without taking
responsibility for it.

Regards,
Bryan Østergaard
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