Re: [gentoo-dev] open season on other-dev's packages -- policy change?

[Thomas Sachau]

Ian Stakenvicius schrieb:
> On 22/11/12 11:22 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:22:10PM -0600, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>>> On 11:11 Sun 18 Nov     , Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>>>> Here's a list of every package where I'm a maintainer and there
>>>> is no herd listed (but their might be other maintainers):
>> I didn't say I was dropping any of the packages, merely making an
>> explicit list of packages I maintain, that other developers are
>> welcome to touch - if they want to take them over explicitly, that
>> would be great too.
>
>
> ..  For certain things, I think it would be very beneficial for this
> to be true (other dev's welcome to touch) across the tree.  Maybe if
> there is enough general support for it, we should change our default
> of "never touch a maintainer's package without permission of the
> maintainer/herd", to "OK to touch unless package metadata explicitly
> requests not to" ...?  And we can put a tag in the metadata to
> indicate this (or even to indicate what other dev's can and can't
> touch -- ie, can touch *DEPEND, can bump EAPI, cannot add features,
> cannot bump)?
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>

What certain things do you have in mind? In wich situation do you see a
simple "May i touch the package?/ok for this patch?" as too much to do
before touching a package?

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Thomas Sachau
Gentoo Linux Developer