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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Soliciting input for a non-maintainer update (NMU) GLEP
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 09:17:45
Message-Id: CAG2jQ8jgox9bEabXrCJWWyxhn7LWCnevUB7PS0=qp0sr0O_=0g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Soliciting input for a non-maintainer update (NMU) GLEP by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On 22 June 2013 02:42, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:06:30PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 >> On Friday 21 June 2013 20:26:03 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
4 >> > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 08:17:38PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 >> > > > I'm not going into review systems here at all, I'm simply trying to
6 >> > > > have a policy of what changes are welcomed/blocked WITHOUT interaction
7 >> > > > from the listed maintainer(s) of a given package/herd.
8 >> > >
9 >> > > add a new field to metadata.xml that declares the state. make it an enum:
10 >> > > ANYTHING_GOES (the default)
11 >> > > REQUIRES_HERD
12 >> > > REQUIRES_MAINTAINER
13 >> >
14 >> > I wish it was that easy.
15 >> >
16 >> > Despite being ANYTHING_GOES on most of my packages, I don't want people
17 >> > to add giant features like qmail patchbombs; so we need to figure out
18 >> > something like the Debian NMU listing of what's acceptable.
19 >> the maintainers intent has to be machine codable
20 > So we have the following facets of NMU permissions:
21 > Who
22 > What
23 >
24 >> > Does a version bump count as an acceptable trivial change?
25 >> that's up to the maintainer
26 > This needs to be in the above data:
27 >
28 > So we have:
29 > Who = {ANYTHING_GOES, REQUIRES_DEV, REQUIRES_HERD, REQUIRES_MAINTAINER}
30 > What = {NONE, TRIVIAL, MINOR_FEATURES, VERSION_BUMP, MAJOR_FEATURES}
31 >
32 > So most of my packages might be coded with:
33 > <nmu-policy who="REQUIRES_DEV" what="VERSION_BUMP" />
34 > <nmu-policy who="REQUIRES_HERD" what="MAJOR_FEATURES" />
35 >
36 > - If you're a developer, you can do trivial fixes, add minor features,
37 > bump the version.
38 > - If you're in the herd, you can add major features.
39 >
40 > --
41 > Robin Hugh Johnson
42 > Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
43 > E-Mail : robbat2@g.o
44 > GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
45 >
46
47 This sounds pretty reasonable to me.
48
49 --
50 Regards,
51 Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
52 http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang