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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing elasticsearch maintainer
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 05:47:32
Message-Id: 1495432039.1899.3.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing elasticsearch maintainer by Sam Jorna
1 On pon, 2017-05-22 at 11:52 +1000, Sam Jorna wrote:
2 > On 18/05/17 02:38, Patrick Lauer wrote:
3 > > Since proxy-maint refuses to be removed from packages (especially since they
4 > > were unconditionally added to all packages with a non-gentoo-dev maintainer in
5 > > metadata) they are the de facto maintainers, and overrule everything else.
6 >
7 > Just to clarify, the Proxy Maintainers project is not required to be
8 > added to all packages maintained by non-Gentoo maintainers. If a Gentoo
9 > developer is willing to work with and proxy commits for maintainer(s)
10 > without commit access, Proxy Maintainers are happy to be removed. There
11 > are several metadata.xml's in the tree with examples, including a few
12 > for which you are one of the maintainers.
13 >
14
15 Just to clarify, this works only if the developer and proxied maintainer
16 agree on the terms. It's not 'I remove proxy-maint, and now force you to
17 work on my terms that do not fit you because reasons'.
18
19 --
20 Best regards,
21 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing elasticsearch maintainer Sam Jorna <wraeth@g.o>