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On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 03:04:11PM -0400, Alexis Ballier wrote: |
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> > - How should developers, herds & teams communicate how welcome they |
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> > are to NMU changes on their packages? |
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> The way I've been doing this is: |
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> - packages I maintain through herd -> go ahead and be responsible. |
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> - if I add myself explicitly in metadata.xml this means I prefer at |
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> least reviewing every change that gets in (with some exceptions for |
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> trivial changes, like e.g. qt moving category) |
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That's fine for packages in a herd, but doesn't scale, and doesn't |
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handle packages without a herd. |
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> > - How do we encourage responsible ownership of changes that cause |
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> > breakage? [1] |
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> That's something I'd like to get enlightened on. The, probably too |
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> emotional, algorithm that doesn't scale I've been applying has been: |
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Your portion is also if you are the one that found it. You might not be |
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the person that finds it. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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