Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP RFC: Third-party contributions

[M. J. Everitt]

On 28/10/16 08:34, Daniel Campbell wrote:
> On 10/27/2016 11:51 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 21:49:55 -0700
>> Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/27/2016 06:13 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> To be honest, after writing it all down, I started to get the feeling
>>>> it isn't necessary after all. The initial idea (and what motivation was
>>>> supposed to mean) was that all previous attempts failed because they
>>>> either tried to be too specific, force too many style rules or just
>>>> never got necessary 'global' to reach all affected parties.
>>>>
>>>> I'd dare say this GLEP ended up confirming 'third party contributions'
>>>> are not that special, we don't need special teams to handle them or
>>>> special rules to cover them.
>>>>
>>>> So yes, it would probably be enough to put such a simple statement
>>>> somewhere. The problem is: where? ;-) GLEP seemed like a
>>>> straightforward solution to make it global.
>>>>
>>> Could it be relevant on the git workflow page? I consult that on a
>>> regular basis (it's even in my watch list), and accepting/pushing
>>> contributions seems like it's right in line with our expected git workflow.
>>>
>>> Just a thought. I like where you're going with the idea.
>> Anything put on the git workflow page automatically becomes rejected by
>> most of the developers and users for being a whim of hasufell ;-).
>>
> That seems unproductive. What has been proposed in its stead?
>
I thought monsieurp had written a git flow page for users of the g-p-m
project as they are chief users of this process. Is that only under the
G-P-M wiki page .. might be worth doing some harmonisation there and/or
poking the g-p-m folks?

MJE