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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Messing with other people's packages
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:17:28
Message-Id: 20050226181537.5842160c@snowdrop
1 Hi people,
2
3 Just a reminder that it's considered bad manners to mess with other
4 people's packages (such as, say, doing a revbump and adding a patch)
5 without asking first, especially when:
6
7 * the package is actively maintained and herded in metadata.xml
8 * the package maintainer is easily contactable by irc or email
9 * you don't have a bug explaining why a given change is necessary
10 * the change you're making is broken
11
12 So, uh, ask first, mkay?
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
16 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
17 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Messing with other people's packages Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>