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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] best practice: bump/stable request
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:31:45
Message-Id: 20131124163135.49d444be@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] best practice: bump/stable request by Thomas Kahle
1 On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:12:19 +0100
2 Thomas Kahle <tomka@g.o> wrote:
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4 > Is it inpolite, as a dev, to open a bump/stable request bug and
5 > not assign (wrangle) it yourself?
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7 It wouldn't be impolite as such. But you would be piling more work on
8 some unpaid volunteer's desk. I'm sure there is a moral lesson here. :)
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10 > I expect bugwranglers to have scripts that do this more
11 > efficiently than me traversing the tree and grep'ing
12 > metadata.xml by hand. Bugwranglers, do you?
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14 cat or $PAGER (or an actual XML parser) would be safer than grep.
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17 Regards,
18 jer