"Tony \"Chainsaw\" Vroon" <chainsaw@g.o> posted
1215127573.4067.7.camel@localhost
, excerpted below, on  Fri, 04 Jul 2008
00:26:13 +0100:

>> 2) If you had your way, would you discourage users from filing early
>> version bump requests?

AFAIK, it has been at least informal policy to discourage bump requests 
for the first week or two.  After that, it's fair game, but of course 
check for dups b4 filing.

> Just an idea:
> How about a metadata.xml tag that indicates whether early bump requests
> are welcome? It's more of an individual developer preference, but that
> seems the right place for it.

While I like the /idea/ of a metadata tag, all in all, I think a blanket 
policy remains best (read least confusing).  Make it 72 hours or a week 
or whatever.  Devs who know and prefer not to be bothered after that can 
file their own bug, thus letting people know /they/ know, and giving 
people a place to CC for updates.

BTW, is there a supported and easily user usable metadata viewer.  
Something at the level of gentoolkit?  I've not seen or read of such a 
thing, which indicates it's likely pretty obscure if so.  What good would 
a metadata tag do if it's not info exposed to the users?  Practically, 
that's just more confusing.

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