| 1 |
On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:48:52 +0100 Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o> |
| 2 |
wrote: |
| 3 |
| Introduce a new arch keyword "maint", to turn the concept of the |
| 4 |
| "maintainer arch" from an intangible into something real. Package |
| 5 |
| maintainers can then mark packages "~maint" or "maint" as required, |
| 6 |
| and leave the real arch keywords for the arch teams to handle. This |
| 7 |
| approach ensures that arch maintainers have the metadata they need to |
| 8 |
| know which packages the package maintainers consider appropriate for |
| 9 |
| stabilising, and which ones they don't. Any guesswork is removed. |
| 10 |
|
| 11 |
Workable for a certain category of packages so long as it's advisory |
| 12 |
only. Arch teams need to be allowed to override maintainers where |
| 13 |
appropriate, and in some places (eg toolchain, kernel) the concept of |
| 14 |
maintainer arch is utterly irrelevant. |
| 15 |
|
| 16 |
And "maint" as a name? Yick. "maintainer" or "owner" maybe. |
| 17 |
|
| 18 |
-- |
| 19 |
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
| 20 |
Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
| 21 |
Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
Archives