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On 14:37 Tue 13 Aug , Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> If a maintainer is holding something up for months by all means |
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> escalate it if you think it is justified, but if a maintainer just |
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> wants a few days to look into things, that isn't asking too much. If |
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> this were a security patch I might feel differently, or a stable |
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> regression (though as has been pointed out that shouldn't happen with |
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> reverse dep testing). |
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Turns out we already wrote this down. See "Touching other developers |
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ebuilds": |
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http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/index.html |
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"Otherwise a soft limit of 2 to 4 weeks depending on the severity of the |
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bug is an acceptable time frame before you go ahead and fix it |
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yourself." |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux <http://dberkholz.com> |
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Analyst, RedMonk <http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/> |
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