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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:12:26 +0200 |
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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> |
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To: gentoo-core@l.g.o |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-core] [POLICY] Keywording/Stabilizing Bug |
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Assignment Policy |
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:50:26 +0200 |
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"Stefan Schweizer" <genstef@g.o> wrote: |
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> As a maintainer I have to deal with many stable/keywording requests. |
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> Those are bugs that generally hang around in my bugzilla queries and |
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> fill my mailbox and I do not have any ability to help there or fix |
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> them. Those bugmails constitute spam for my mailbox. |
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The bugs you open generate too much information? So basically you do |
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too much work to still cope with the consequences of that very same |
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work? Maybe you can get a dev to act as your secretary? (I am being |
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serious.) |
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This matter appears to be entirely unrelated to the original thread, |
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too. |
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> It would be cool to implement a keywording@g.o alias just to |
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> assign those bugs to so that we maintainers do not need to see them. |
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So this way you would avoid receiving important information? Why don't |
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you set up bugsy not to inform you about these under [Email |
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Preferences]? Whether it is wise to do this, is a different matter |
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altogether. |
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> In my opinion the last architecture should also remove the old ebuild |
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> they have just made obsolete by stabling/keywording the new version, |
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> since they commit to the directory anyway. |
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Some more policy would be need on this second matter entirely unrelated |
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to the original thread. The last arch dev keywording a package should |
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then check as well whether the package: |
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1) is SLOTted. |
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2) has a history of having users choose specific versions (mask newer |
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versions, basically) based on their own needs. |
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If a package is not SLOTted, it is still not clear whether 2) is the |
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case, so IMHO only the package maintainer should ever (yet diligently) |
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clean up so-called "old" ebuilds. |
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Kind regards, |
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JeR |
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