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On 22 June 2013 02:42, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:06:30PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>> On Friday 21 June 2013 20:26:03 Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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>> > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 08:17:38PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>> > > > I'm not going into review systems here at all, I'm simply trying to |
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>> > > > have a policy of what changes are welcomed/blocked WITHOUT interaction |
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>> > > > from the listed maintainer(s) of a given package/herd. |
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>> > > |
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>> > > add a new field to metadata.xml that declares the state. make it an enum: |
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>> > > ANYTHING_GOES (the default) |
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>> > > REQUIRES_HERD |
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>> > > REQUIRES_MAINTAINER |
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>> > I wish it was that easy. |
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>> > |
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>> > Despite being ANYTHING_GOES on most of my packages, I don't want people |
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>> > to add giant features like qmail patchbombs; so we need to figure out |
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>> > something like the Debian NMU listing of what's acceptable. |
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>> the maintainers intent has to be machine codable |
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> So we have the following facets of NMU permissions: |
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> Who |
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> What |
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> |
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>> > Does a version bump count as an acceptable trivial change? |
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>> that's up to the maintainer |
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> This needs to be in the above data: |
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> So we have: |
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> Who = {ANYTHING_GOES, REQUIRES_DEV, REQUIRES_HERD, REQUIRES_MAINTAINER} |
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> What = {NONE, TRIVIAL, MINOR_FEATURES, VERSION_BUMP, MAJOR_FEATURES} |
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> |
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> So most of my packages might be coded with: |
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> <nmu-policy who="REQUIRES_DEV" what="VERSION_BUMP" /> |
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> <nmu-policy who="REQUIRES_HERD" what="MAJOR_FEATURES" /> |
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> - If you're a developer, you can do trivial fixes, add minor features, |
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> bump the version. |
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> - If you're in the herd, you can add major features. |
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> -- |
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> Robin Hugh Johnson |
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> Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead |
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> E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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> GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 |
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This sounds pretty reasonable to me. |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang |
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