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> On 5 Jul 2022, at 03:49, Ionen Wolkens <ionen@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 04:19:12PM +0200, Florian Schmaus wrote: |
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>> I'd like to propose a new metadata XML element for packages: |
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>> <non-maintainer-commits-welcome/> |
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>> Maintainers can signal to other developers (and of course contributors |
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>> in general) that they are happy with others to make changes to the |
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>> ebuilds without prior consultation of the maintainer. |
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>> Of course, this is not a free ticket to always make changes to packages |
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>> that you do not maintain without prior consultation of the maintainer. I |
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>> would expect people to use their common sense to decide if a change may |
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>> require maintainer attention or not. In general, it is always a good |
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>> idea to communicate changes in every case. |
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>> The absence of the flag does not automatically allow the conclusion that |
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>> the maintainer is opposed to non-maintainer commits. It just means that |
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>> the maintainer's stance is not known. I do not believe that we need a |
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>> <non-maintainer-commits-disallowed/> flag, but if the need arises, we |
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>> could always consider adding one. Although, in my experience, people |
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>> mostly like to communicate the "non-maintainer commits welcome" policy |
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>> with others. |
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>> WDYT? |
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> Personally I think something per-maintainer rather than per package |
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> would be simpler, and allow to say more as needed. |
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> Think like devaway instructions, but something more permanent and |
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> not for being away, e.g. |
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> "feel free to touch my packages except this big important one, and |
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> or do or do not do this to them" |
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On this, some prior art from zx2c4: https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=147816820903115&w=2). |
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Best, |
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sam |
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