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Bryan Ãstergaard wrote: |
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> Ok, let me see if I can get this straight.. You're saying that |
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> maintainer-needed requires less communication overhead compared to |
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> ebuilds with maintainers assigned? And that maintainer-needed is |
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> therefore better than ebuilds having maintainers. |
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agreed. I prefer to fix ebuilds in maintainer-needed than maintained ebuilds |
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because communication takes eternally compared to fixing simple things |
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quickly. |
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>> the committer in this case has no interest in maintaining the thing. And |
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>> for proxying it does not matter who is proxying. |
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> Of course it matters. There's a big difference between a proxy |
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> maintainer having to ask a *specific* dev that's proxying his ebuild |
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> updates/changes or trying to find a random dev willing to help. |
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I will of course commit all fixes when anyone asks me to. But it does not |
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matter if I commit them or anyone else who cares and has access levels. |
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>> this does not allow the actual maintainer to close the bug and causes a |
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>> lot of bugspam for a person who does not care about it and should be only |
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>> contacted in the end to commit fixes/patches/bumps. |
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> Shouldn't matter too much as a gentoo dev is still responsible for the |
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> package? |
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of course he is still responsible. Does not mean he likes to get 10 mails |
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about people asking for stable keywords and arches stabilizing every month. |
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> Nobody shoud be adding stuff to portage without taking |
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> responsibility for it. |
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I am not adding stuff. I am fixing existing packages. And I am taking |
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responsibility. The maintainer can always assign me bugs if he thinks I |
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should take care of them and I read and take care of them anyway because I |
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am on maintainer-needed. |
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- Stefan |
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PS: mailing lists are a bit broken. 3 people answer me and ask almost the |
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same and I answer almost the same again .. |
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