Re: [gentoo-project] Discontinuing the support for GitHub pull requests

[Michał Górny]

W dniu wto, 31.10.2017 o godzinie 13∶04 +1300, użytkownik Kent Fredric
napisał:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:17:38 +0100
> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>
> >  The generic image would be
> > 'we use GitHub for internal work with our proxied maintainers, external
> > contributions go via whatever else'.
>
> Maybe, along with the proxy-maintainers whitelist, you could provide support
> for other maintainers/teams being added to the whitelist?

Feel free to provide a patch.

> And perhaps each whitelist entry should contain a note describing how proxy-maint are supposed
> to respond if they find a package that mentions that alias, but appears inactive.
>
> I would consider said list to be able to enumerate things like:
>
> "sure, my name is foo, and I'm the maintainer for this, but please ping this other person
>  and have a conversation with them on IRC about this package and not just maintain it"
>
> Having a tag exclusively for "proxy maint aren't to touch this and this could lag for a long time"
> might also be useful, as well as telling end users when that tag gets applied what it means.
>
> eg: "Hi, this package is maintained by <blah> who doesn't/tends to respond slowly to github requests,
>      ... it may be worth your time to file a bug on bugs.gentoo.org instead and close this PR"

I have no clue how is this even supposed to be used and by whom.

> In short, we need more and better communication, not less.

Then find people who are really interested in spending hours trying to
communicate with people who believe being a Gentoo package maintainer is
about feeling important and expecting others to come to you and beg you
to review a fix to your own bug.

I've spend enough time trying to communicate pull requests to different
developers on behalf of users, and I'm done with it. And I know I'm not
alone with this.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny