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From: David Seifert <soap@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla package list editing
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 15:34:10
Message-Id: 1494430386.1333.10.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla package list editing by Mart Raudsepp
1 On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 18:22 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
2 > Ühel kenal päeval, T, 02.05.2017 kell 02:31, kirjutas Andreas K.
3 > Huettel:
4 > > Am Sonntag, 30. April 2017, 12:29:46 CEST schrieb Mart Raudsepp:
5 > > >
6 > > > Please stop editing package lists when you are not the maintainer
7 > > > and
8 > > > arches are already CCed.
9 > > >
10 > >
11 > > +1
12 > >
13 > > Please stop it.
14 > > And yes that's also true for arch team members.
15 > >
16 > > Package list is maintainer territory.
17 >
18 > He keeps messing with this.
19 > Can we please remove his editbugs privileges until he learns to be
20 > more
21 > considerate towards others?
22 >
23 > I'm sick and tired of seeing these non-maintainer package list
24 > editing
25 > e-mails that I need to spend time on to validate what was changed
26 > again.
27 > As-is, one person is constantly generating lots of small amount of
28 > extra checking work for everyone else due to being stubborn and not
29 > simply prepending a = in front of the package list lines, if not
30 > present yet, as he must have a script already to filter out the
31 > packages that are needed for hppa (and no, it's not just a grep
32 > hppa).
33 > (and it's not always just prepending of =, there can always be other
34 > easter eggs in longer package lists without as much as a comment, as
35 > many have experienced, so you do need to really carefully check what
36 > the heck was changed again).
37 >
38 >
39 > Mart
40 >
41
42 He doesn't stop: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617694
43 Please drop editbugs privileges for some time. Everyone agrees that
44 this maintainer-specific metadata is not to be touched.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla package list editing Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>