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On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 21:26:37 +0100 Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o> |
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| > Arch teams need to be allowed to override maintainers where |
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| > appropriate, |
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| Why not talk to the package maintainers instead, and convince them |
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| that you need a different version marking "maint" instead? Why |
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| "override" (which, tbh, smacks of "we arch teams know best, life would |
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| be better without package maintainers") when you could work with |
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| people instead? You're *not* in competition with package |
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| maintainers. We're all supposed to be working towards the same |
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| thing :) |
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Sure, we do that anyway. However, sometimes package maintainers are |
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outright wrong. |
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| I've no personal problem with arch teams sometimes needing to do their |
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| own thing, provided it's confined to a specific class of package. |
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| Outside of the core packages required to boot & maintain a platform, |
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| when is there ever a need for arch maintainers to decide that they |
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| know better than package maintainers? |
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Pretty regularly. A significant number of package maintainers have a |
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very shoddy attitude towards QA, and a significant number of upstreams |
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have no clue what portability is. |
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| If this isn't confined - if arch maintainers are allowed to override |
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| package maintainers wherever they want to - then arch teams need to |
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| take on the support burden. Fair's fair - if it's the arch team |
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| creating the support, it's only fair that they support users in these |
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| cases. It's completely unfair - and unrealistic - to expect a |
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| package maintainer to support a package he/she thinks isn't fit to be |
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| stable on an arch that he/she probably doesn't use anyway. In such a |
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| conflict of egos, the real losers remain our users. |
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If it isn't fit to be marked stable, it shouldn't be out of |
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package.mask. ~arch means "candidate for going stable after more |
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testing", not "might work". |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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