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From: Thomas Anderson <gentoofan23@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:37:57
Message-Id: 20080703235235.GA27479@spoc.mpa.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests by "Tony \\\"Chainsaw\\\" Vroon"
1 On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:26:13AM +0100, Tony Chainsaw Vroon wrote:
2 > > 2) If you had your way, would you discourage users from filing early
3 > > version bump requests?
4 > Just an idea:
5 > How about a metadata.xml tag that indicates whether early bump requests are welcome?
6 > It's more of an individual developer preference, but that seems the right place for it.
7 >
8 > Regards,
9 > Tony V.
10
11 I think Tony's metadata.xml idea is perhaps the proper way to handle
12 this issue.
13
14 As for your questions, I like getting bump requests as soon as possible, as I can't check
15 upstream's website every day or two. One thing to watch out for is
16 a huge amount duplicates.