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12.06.2013 15:43, hasufell пишет: |
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> I am sorry, but I don't even understand what a co-maintainer is. |
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> In my understanding there are only package maintainers. Everyone listed |
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> in metadata.xml is a maintainer and has the competence to do any kind of |
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> changes. |
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> If one of the other maintainers disagree, then it's not a question of |
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> who is the master-maintainer and who is the co-maintainer. |
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> That's an internal problem of those people and they should deal with it. |
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> If they are unable to do that, then they can contact devrel. Period. |
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> If a developer refuses to add enhancements to an ebuild without giving |
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> technical reasons, then it's a matter for devrel as well. |
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> Honestly... In case of systemd I'd just open a bug, attach the fixes and |
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> wait for some time. In case of no response I'd just apply it. If the dev |
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> reverts it without giving a reason, I will contact him and if necessary |
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> devrel. |
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> I don't see a reason to introduce a special policy for this. We could go |
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> on about such things all day, because there are and will be more. |
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> And I am not really sorry about devs dropping maintainership because of |
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> such silly issues. If they can't work out something like that, then it's |
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> better that way. |
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> reasoning > authority |
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But you know about "Assignee" field in bugzilla, do not you? Maintainer |
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in this terms is "Assignee", co-maintainer(s) goes in CC field. |
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Sometimes co-maintainer and maintainers have different levels of |
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authority on specific packages(for example proxy maintainers). But |
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usually if we are talking about two Gentoo developers who maintain |
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package and have NO additional info in metadata's desciption(descibing |
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their right, for example 'only issues about foo feature', see |
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net-misc/openssh metadata) fields than they are equal in their rights on |
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the package. |
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P.S. All above is my personal point of view, based on policy, common |
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sense, etc. |
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Best regards, Sergey Popov |
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Gentoo developer |
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Gentoo Desktop-effects project lead |
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Gentoo Qt project lead |
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