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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:07:49
Message-Id: 44035B76.70004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:53:20 -0800 Donnie Berkholz
3 > <spyderous@g.o> wrote:
4 > | The maintainer should be the absolute authority over his/her packages,
5 > | and only the council should be able to overrule maintainer decisions
6 > | in the case of disagreement between the maintainer and anybody else.
7 >
8 > So if the maintainer sticks SANDBOX_DISABLE="1" rm -fr / in global scope
9 > and refuses to move it, QA will have to get council approval to fix it?
10
11 I already addressed that in the next email in the thread.
12
13 "That assumes lack of extenuating circumstances such as
14 security vulnerabilities or major tree breakage."
15
16 Thanks,
17 Donnie

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