Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

[Gilles Dartiguelongue]

Le vendredi 04 juillet 2008 à 07:07 +0200, Hans de Graaff a écrit :
> On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 02:31 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 01:16:09 +0200
> > Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > Disclaimer: I'm not really a package maintainer anymore.
>
> I am, and Marius said all the things that I would have said. :-)
>
> One of the reasons that it depends is also that my own involvement which
> packages varies. Some things I track closely including involvement with
> upstream, and then a 0-day bump can be a bit annoying since I'm already
> quite aware of the bump. Other packages I've only taken up because
> otherwise they would be without any maintainer, and I may only check
> them every 6 months or so. Getting any bump request for them (0-day or
> otherwise) is useful.

I'm 100% seconding that. We, the gnome guys, have at least 2 ways of
being notified of package updates (RSS & mailing-list). So for most of
the packages we manage, a 0-day bump request is annoying ("yes we know,
but we haven't had time to get to it, so please don't bother us..."). If
we aren't done one week later, then it's probably that we missed it on
our radar or we haven't had enough man power at this time. In either
case it's fine to fill a bug at this time.

-- 
Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
Gentoo