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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing elasticsearch maintainer
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 04:13:07
Message-Id: 7731a4e2-348c-5603-fa69-4f62f9919a4a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing elasticsearch maintainer by Sam Jorna
1 On 05/22/2017 03:52 AM, 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 That's nice.
15
16 Could proxy-maint as a team maybe try to agree on such things so that
17 everyone is on the same page? It's a tiny bit annoying when the actions
18 of some contradict the suggested rules of others, while appearing as a
19 single team to the outside ...

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing elasticsearch maintainer "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing elasticsearch maintainer Sam Jorna <wraeth@g.o>