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

[Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 1 Nov 2013 20:49:36 +0100
Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> wrote:

> You're changing the subject. Nobody was talking about really severe
> bugs, and those aren't really the common case.

Nobody has to for them to be an exception worth mentioning.

> Maybe delays don't matter to you, but you can't posit that the same
> is true for every other developer. I think the potentially significant
> delay matters a lot.

Do you have an example? Which actual problem are we trying to fix here?

> The whole point is that we cannot assume that maintainer has time.

We can, because we have the devaway system.

> The scenario is that I have taken a little time right now to fix a
> bug and get the fix committed so that I no longer experience said bug.
> I'm fixing this bug because it is blocking me in some way. It matters
> a whole lot if I have to wait for someone else to unblock me, in
> practice that completely demotivates me to contribute back, and I
> would simply work around the block.

Delay is to be expected with proxy maintenance.

Why do you need to wait for the actual commit? If you have it
fixed locally, it does no longer bother you; does it?

> QA has nothing to do with committing, don't confuse Gentoo policy
> with actual meaning of the terms. Testing, repoman and QA matters
> are of course part of creating the patch in the first place.

It does, the person whom commits has to do the testing / repoman / QA;
ensuring the changes are good is the responsibility of the person whom
commits and that cannot be transferred to the writer of the patch.

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Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
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