Re: [gentoo-dev] open season on other-dev's packages -- policy change?

[Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:08:25 +0100
Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> wrote:

> Rich Freeman wrote:
> > If a package has a responsive maintainer, then pinging them isn't
> > really much of a hurdle.
> 
> I'm not so sure. Waiting for a human round trip which due merely to
> time zones might occupy my attention for 24 hours (even if I
> obviously do other things meanwhile) is IMO quite significantly
> different from the 24 seconds it might take for me to commit a fix.

For really severe bugs I think that pinging just anyone who is around
will do, alternatively you could ping the proxy maintainers herd. In
both cases there is most of the time someone available; so, it would be
a matter of minutes to have the patch applied.

And for bugs that can wait, it doesn't really matter that there is a
slight delay; with a ping where you provide a patch it is still fixed
faster than the average bug on bugzilla (assuming maintainer has time).

Please note that the average commit takes longer than 24 seconds as it
involves testing the change, repoman checks and similar QA matters.

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With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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