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On 12 June 2013 12:05, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> Alas, I couldn't attend the council meeting in-person, but it seems |
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> like council missed the point of my request RE commits against |
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> maintainer wishes (or maybe not - if so I'll happily shut up as far as |
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> persuading the council goes). That said, I expressed it as a general |
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> request in the hope to not have something systemd-specific, and it |
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> sounds like that is not desired. |
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> Picking just a single quote that I think gives the sense of the discussion: |
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> <11.06.2013 19:10> <@Betelgeuse> Still I don't think policies |
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> necessary need adjusting |
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> <11.06.2013 19:10> <@Betelgeuse> If you need something system wide |
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> with opposition then ask council on a case by case basis |
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> So, what we need system-wide with clearly stated opposition on -dev is |
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> permission to add unit files to individual packages when the package |
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> maintainer doesn't want this done. |
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> I'd ask that the council consider explicitly permitting this. If not |
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> you're just going to get an agenda item for specific exceptions for |
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> the 10 packages that the maintainer blocked adding units to that |
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> particular month. Either that or you'll see 10 new packages with |
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> co-maintainers where the two maintainers are in complete disagreement, |
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> or the one who actually cares about the package and not the unit file |
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> quits and the package stagnates as a result. Nobody needs council |
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> permission under the current policies to become a co-maintainer. I |
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> really see this as a case where lack of direction from above is just |
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> going to lead to a lot of fighting at the ground level. |
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> If the council isn't willing to make policy regarding adding units to |
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> packages, just where do they expect them to go? |
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> Rich |
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What worries me is that we've reached the point where we need the |
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Council to define a policy for adding simple text file to packages. |
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If maintainers can't work things out then a policy can't fix that. We |
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simply can't have a policy for every single bit. If maintainers refuse |
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as responsible adults then the problem is deeper. Having to read the |
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rulebook everytime we want to commit something takes the fun away. |
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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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