From: Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Messing with other people's packages
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:50:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4220C4E3.9040200@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050226181537.5842160c@snowdrop>
Hi,
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Just a reminder that it's considered bad manners to mess with other
> people's packages (such as, say, doing a revbump and adding a patch)
> without asking first, especially when:
Sure, but what when...
> * the package is actively maintained and herded in metadata.xml
the bug is lying around for several months,
> * the package maintainer is easily contactable by irc or email
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
even in the AssignedTo field of the bug?
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?
Greetings,
blubb
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-26 18:15 [gentoo-dev] Messing with other people's packages Ciaran McCreesh
2005-02-26 18:50 ` Simon Stelling [this message]
2005-02-26 18:58 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-02-26 19:47 ` Nick Winlund
2005-02-26 20:06 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-02-26 20:17 ` Lina Pezzella
2005-02-26 20:27 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-02-26 20:39 ` Lina Pezzella
2005-02-26 20:47 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-02-28 22:53 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-03-02 9:59 ` Luca Barbato
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