From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Soliciting input for a non-maintainer update (NMU) GLEP
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 21:06:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201306212106.31519.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <robbat2-20130622T002113-633072609Z@orbis-terrarum.net>
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On Friday 21 June 2013 20:26:03 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 08:17:38PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > I'm not going into review systems here at all, I'm simply trying to
> > > have a policy of what changes are welcomed/blocked WITHOUT interaction
> > > from the listed maintainer(s) of a given package/herd.
> >
> > add a new field to metadata.xml that declares the state. make it an enum:
> > ANYTHING_GOES (the default)
> > REQUIRES_HERD
> > REQUIRES_MAINTAINER
>
> I wish it was that easy.
>
> Despite being ANYTHING_GOES on most of my packages, I don't want people
> to add giant features like qmail patchbombs; so we need to figure out
> something like the Debian NMU listing of what's acceptable.
the maintainers intent has to be machine codable
> Does this need to be coded in the metadata?
yes. we already have maintainer info in there, and putting it anywhere else
is doomed to failure.
> Does a version bump count as an acceptable trivial change?
that's up to the maintainer
-mike
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-21 18:50 [gentoo-dev] Soliciting input for a non-maintainer update (NMU) GLEP Robin H. Johnson
2013-06-21 19:04 ` Alexis Ballier
2013-06-21 19:07 ` Robin H. Johnson
2013-06-21 19:31 ` Alexis Ballier
2013-06-22 1:11 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-06-21 20:31 ` Michael Weber
2013-06-21 20:41 ` Michael Weber
2013-06-22 1:21 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-06-21 23:40 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-06-22 0:06 ` Robin H. Johnson
2013-06-22 0:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-06-22 0:26 ` Robin H. Johnson
2013-06-22 1:06 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2013-06-22 1:42 ` Robin H. Johnson
2013-06-22 3:28 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-06-22 9:00 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-06-22 9:05 ` hasufell
2013-06-22 9:38 ` [gentoo-dev] Herds (was: Soliciting input for a non-maintainer update (NMU) GLEP) Ulrich Mueller
2013-06-22 9:48 ` [gentoo-dev] Herds hasufell
2013-06-22 9:46 ` [gentoo-dev] Soliciting input for a non-maintainer update (NMU) GLEP Ulrich Mueller
2013-06-22 10:43 ` Rich Freeman
2013-06-22 9:01 ` hasufell
2013-06-22 10:20 ` Michael Weber
2013-06-22 10:39 ` Rich Freeman
2013-06-22 10:52 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-06-22 17:59 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-06-22 9:16 ` Markos Chandras
2013-06-22 10:19 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-06-22 13:42 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Palimaka
2013-06-22 15:13 ` [gentoo-dev] " hasufell
2013-06-22 16:56 ` Robin H. Johnson
2013-06-22 10:11 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-06-23 3:01 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-06-27 18:18 ` hasufell
2013-06-27 19:29 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
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