Re: [gentoo-dev] Soliciting input for a non-maintainer update (NMU) GLEP

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:06:30PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 21 June 2013 20:26:03 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 08:17:38PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > I'm not going into review systems here at all, I'm simply trying to
> > > > have a policy of what changes are welcomed/blocked WITHOUT interaction
> > > > from the listed maintainer(s) of a given package/herd.
> > >
> > > add a new field to metadata.xml that declares the state.  make it an enum:
> > > 	ANYTHING_GOES	(the default)
> > > 	REQUIRES_HERD
> > > 	REQUIRES_MAINTAINER
> >
> > I wish it was that easy.
> >
> > Despite being ANYTHING_GOES on most of my packages, I don't want people
> > to add giant features like qmail patchbombs; so we need to figure out
> > something like the Debian NMU listing of what's acceptable.
> the maintainers intent has to be machine codable
So we have the following facets of NMU permissions:
Who
What

> > Does a version bump count as an acceptable trivial change?
> that's up to the maintainer
This needs to be in the above data:

So we have:
Who = {ANYTHING_GOES, REQUIRES_DEV, REQUIRES_HERD, REQUIRES_MAINTAINER}
What = {NONE, TRIVIAL, MINOR_FEATURES, VERSION_BUMP, MAJOR_FEATURES}

So most of my packages might be coded with:
<nmu-policy who="REQUIRES_DEV" what="VERSION_BUMP" />
<nmu-policy who="REQUIRES_HERD" what="MAJOR_FEATURES" />

- If you're a developer, you can do trivial fixes, add minor features,
  bump the version.
- If you're in the herd, you can add major features.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
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