From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j1QIxO4u014919 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:59:24 GMT Received: from [62.254.189.226] (helo=snowdrop) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.42) id 1D579v-0000kv-9u for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:59:23 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop) by snowdrop with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D579X-0001z2-7P for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:58:59 +0000 Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:58:55 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Messing with other people's packages Message-ID: <20050226185855.55155173@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <4220C4E3.9040200@gentoo.org> References: <20050226181537.5842160c@snowdrop> <4220C4E3.9040200@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Sat__26_Feb_2005_18_58_55_+0000_ebrCjjK73aEtJojW; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Archives-Salt: 88671a7f-db4a-495b-bee3-9ef4b28c0dd9 X-Archives-Hash: 817bc1734410cce89a2dc7234702dd8f --Signature_Sat__26_Feb_2005_18_58_55_+0000_ebrCjjK73aEtJojW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:50:11 +0100 Simon Stelling wrote: | > * the package is actively maintained and herded in metadata.xml |=20 | the bug is lying around for several months, |=20 | > * the package maintainer is easily contactable by irc or email |=20 | the package maintainer isn't on irc and did never comment the bug | and your patch is only applyied on a specific arch which is CC'ed or=20 | even in the AssignedTo field of the bug? Didn't we decide that arch specific patches were a bad idea? | Of course it's always better to ask first, but would it still be rude | in such a case? What if a revbump isn't needed? Naah, if the maintainer has vanished and there's no herd backing them up (or the entire herd has vanished) then it's a whole different story. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Sat__26_Feb_2005_18_58_55_+0000_ebrCjjK73aEtJojW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCIMbx96zL6DUtXhERAj3uAJ9od2muVvpaqwqcYKTN/WJuB+zqEgCg0esR iYXOYQ6DropvMfIfx9iRorE= =yuPA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Sat__26_Feb_2005_18_58_55_+0000_ebrCjjK73aEtJojW-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list