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