From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HbdML-0007nr-6o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:59:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3BDvjCf028471; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:57:45 GMT Received: from smtp02.atlngahp.sys.nuvox.net (smtp-out2.atlngahp.sys.nuvox.net [70.43.63.19]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3BDqtHQ020022 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:52:57 GMT Received: from [10.3.23.140] (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp02.atlngahp.sys.nuvox.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l3BDqvjL016896 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:52:57 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New metastructure proposal From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <461C0481.4080602@gentoo.org> References: <20070410193249.GD7991@ubik> <1176236958.8836.26.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <461BF890.9030600@subsignal.org> <1176239939.8836.39.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <461C0481.4080602@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-VBKcNg4oJBvRKuGmR7Ro" Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:52:52 -0400 Message-Id: <1176299572.8755.33.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 X-Archives-Salt: e06ad347-d8c3-40eb-98b6-65f26e5aa0af X-Archives-Hash: 66ca5dccc6628eae7eedb077a816b6a7 --=-VBKcNg4oJBvRKuGmR7Ro Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 00:41 +0300, Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: > Chris Gianelloni kirjoitti: > > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 22:50 +0200, paul@subsignal.org wrote: > >> it's just so easy to step on other > >> ppls feet these days ;) > >=20 > > I tend to agree that this is a problem, but only insofar as we've becom= e > > too territorial. Many times I see bugs filed with seemingly minor > > changes being asked for. A good example is bug #173884 which is a > > completely valid request. The change is simple, removing > > "insinto /etc/env.d ; doins $somefile" and replacing it with "doenvd > > $somefile" instead. =20 >=20 > Or it's plain boring to fix that stuff and if you make people fix their > own packages first, the boring part is distributed. I for example would > fix the ChangeLog syntax problem for all ChangeLogs in the tree but I > know that it's damn boring so I just prefer to get the check into > repoman and let time deal with it. If I ever get to writing an automatic > fixer, I still you need to check the changes or otherwise I could be > committing broken fixes because of false positives. You missed my point entirely. My point was that there's no reason that someone should *have* to file a bug. Everyone should be welcome to make changes like this on their own, without the maintainer being involved. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation --=-VBKcNg4oJBvRKuGmR7Ro Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGHOg0kT4lNIS36YERAm4MAJ9t2mGAMlaM3z7XdIYQuP263gyppgCgvLal 5KPNXHb3tPMZlo+zPO63fuo= =bndq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-VBKcNg4oJBvRKuGmR7Ro-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list