Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing elasticsearch maintainer
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 04:16:57
Message-Id: 23358600-f7e1-84df-5106-dd4646dcefab@iee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing elasticsearch maintainer by Patrick Lauer
1 On 22/05/17 05:12, Patrick Lauer wrote:
2 > On 05/22/2017 03:52 AM, Sam Jorna wrote:
3 >> On 18/05/17 02:38, Patrick Lauer wrote:
4 >>> Since proxy-maint refuses to be removed from packages (especially
5 >>> since they
6 >>> were unconditionally added to all packages with a non-gentoo-dev
7 >>> maintainer in
8 >>> metadata) they are the de facto maintainers, and overrule everything
9 >>> else.
10 >>
11 >> Just to clarify, the Proxy Maintainers project is not required to be
12 >> added to all packages maintained by non-Gentoo maintainers. If a Gentoo
13 >> developer is willing to work with and proxy commits for maintainer(s)
14 >> without commit access, Proxy Maintainers are happy to be removed. There
15 >> are several metadata.xml's in the tree with examples, including a few
16 >> for which you are one of the maintainers.
17 >>
18 > That's nice.
19 >
20 > Could proxy-maint as a team maybe try to agree on such things so that
21 > everyone is on the same page? It's a tiny bit annoying when the
22 > actions of some contradict the suggested rules of others, while
23 > appearing as a single team to the outside ...
24 >
25 >
26 >
27 You imply some level of organisation, and yet this /is/ Gentoo we're
28 talking about ....

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