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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] collab herd for cooperative pkg maintenance
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:55:08
Message-Id: 1427151264.2107.53.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] collab herd for cooperative pkg maintenance by Tim Harder
1 El lun, 23-03-2015 a las 13:22 -0400, Tim Harder escribió:
2 > Hey all,
3 >
4 > Having been around for a few years I've inherited or added quite a few
5 > pkgs to the tree that I wouldn't mind other people fixing/bumping/etc
6 > that don't fall into any current herds.
7 >
8 > With that in mind, I think it would be an interesting experiment if we
9 > had a collaborative herd (probably named "collab") that signals the
10 > status that anyone is generally free to fix, bump, or do sane things to
11 > the pkgs with the caveat that you fix what you break.
12 >
13 > Anyone else interested in such a setup?
14 >
15 > Tim
16
17 Personally I think a tag in metadata to show that a package can be
18 touched by others freely would be much more useful than having a big
19 herd with a mix of packages that are not even related. If people usually
20 don't have time to fix the tons of packages that lacks a maintainer
21 (and, then, they could also fix them without asking for permission), I
22 doubt that new herd would get much real help :(

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Re: [gentoo-dev] collab herd for cooperative pkg maintenance Tim Harder <radhermit@g.o>