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On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 22:50 +0200, paul@×××××××××.org wrote: |
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> it's just so easy to step on other |
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> ppls feet these days ;) |
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I tend to agree that this is a problem, but only insofar as we've become |
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too territorial. Many times I see bugs filed with seemingly minor |
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changes being asked for. A good example is bug #173884 which is a |
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completely valid request. The change is simple, removing |
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"insinto /etc/env.d ; doins $somefile" and replacing it with "doenvd |
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$somefile" instead. Now, this is something that *anyone* with commit |
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access should feel comfortable doing to *anyone's* packages without fear |
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of being attacked for touching someone else's packages. Unfortunately, |
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we're all a bit too territorial over what we keep in the tree sometimes. |
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If we had more explicit freedom to touch other people's packages for |
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minor things, we would go a lot further towards the goal of being a |
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community of mutually respectful people working towards a common goal. |
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Our rule of thumb here is pretty simple... "If you touch it, don't break |
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it. If you break it, fix it." Some people have become too frightened |
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to touch packages for even typo fixes due to the territoriality of some |
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of our developers. We need to fix this and have a more open and |
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welcoming feeling for new developers and old developers alike. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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