Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on how to reduce territoriality

[Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 15:06 -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> More and more, I am finding developers who are afraid to touch packages
> for even minor things if they're not the maintainer.  This is a sad
> state of affairs and not the reason we have maintainers.  We have
> maintainers to assure that a package is being taken care of, not to
> establish some kind of "territory" over that package.  Because of this
> misconception, I would like to come up with and document a listing of
> things that any ebuild developer can feel free to do to any package
> *without* maintainer consent.  These are generally all minor things, but
> things that I think are important.  I'm going to list off the things
> that I can think of, and encourage everyone else to speak up if I've
> missed something.

Arch bugs that obviously don't affect other arches.
An example of this is the pine/uw-imap/c-client stuff which does this

make lnx

Great! Make linux. Sucks for FreeBSD so I've been changing it to

if use elibc_FreeBSD ; then
   make bsf
else
   make lnx
fi

Obviously that's very simplified, but you get the idea. In this case I
don't expect the ebuild maintainer to use Gentoo/FreeBSD.

Thanks

Roy

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