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Stephen Bennett wrote: |
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> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:21:42 +0200 |
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> Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Sure... so, perhaps you have some suggestion how I can read assign |
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>> bugs otherwise than using the metadata.xml; perhaps I could learn to |
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>> read minds of the developers who dump irrelevant stuff into |
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>> metadata.xml and expect someone to know what they meant. |
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> It's not irrelevant; you're just not reading it properly. You might |
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> notice that metadata.xml contains tags other than <herd>, like, say, |
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> <maintainer>. In the example that sparked this, <herd> is games and |
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> <maintainer> the individual dev who maintains it. Simple enough, no? |
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Please, go through the tree and see at least so many metadata.xml files |
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as I have seen, before claiming something that simply doesn't reflect |
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current practice. There are many ebuilds with no <maintainer> tag and |
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<herd> only. Are you claiming that they are unmaintained? Well, that |
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obviously doesn't match the reality. So, if they actually _are_ |
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maintained by the relevant herd, then you shouldn't dump stuff on that |
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herd without discussing it w/ them first. I'm pretty sure mcummings will |
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gladly explain to you what will happen if you do, as well as a bunch of |
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other devs... :P |
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To make it pretty clear and explicit - bugs gets assigned to |
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<maintainer> (if there's any in metadata.xml), and get CCed to <herd> |
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(if there's any in metadata.xml). If there's no <maintainer>, whoever is |
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in <herd> will get that bug assigned and can happily smack you butt once |
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they've find out you've dumped the package on them without their |
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knowledge... That's how the large part of current ~600 dev-perl/* |
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ebuilds has made it into the tree and that mistake doesn't need to be |
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repeated. |
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Best regards, |
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Jakub Moc |
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mailto:jakub@g.o |
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