From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IH5bU-00017H-Qp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:26:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l73MPeKb020043; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 22:25:40 GMT Received: from smtp-3.tky.hut.fi (smtp03.tky.fi [82.130.63.73]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l73MNJRu017062 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 22:23:19 GMT Received: from [82.130.46.196] ([82.130.46.196]) by smtp-3.tky.hut.fi (SMSSMTP 4.1.9.35) with SMTP id M2007080401231703826 for ; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:23:17 +0300 Message-ID: <46B3AAD2.20108@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:23:14 +0300 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0dGVyaSBSw6R0eQ==?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070724) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on how to reduce territoriality References: <1186178767.8470.47.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> In-Reply-To: <1186178767.8470.47.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 OpenPGP: url=http://users.tkk.fi/~praty/public.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB9B9D348A0909EA8ED461067" X-Archives-Salt: 513d7eac-9528-4537-a28e-588921dc3189 X-Archives-Hash: c53990280ac908d70ce7dc597c4d7ade This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB9B9D348A0909EA8ED461067 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Chris Gianelloni kirjoitti: > More and more, I am finding developers who are afraid to touch packages= > for even minor things if they're not the maintainer. This is a sad > state of affairs and not the reason we have maintainers. We have > maintainers to assure that a package is being taken care of, not to > establish some kind of "territory" over that package. Because of this > misconception, I would like to come up with and document a listing of > things that any ebuild developer can feel free to do to any package > *without* maintainer consent. These are generally all minor things, bu= t > things that I think are important. I'm going to list off the things > that I can think of, and encourage everyone else to speak up if I've > missed something. >=20 I don't find anything wrong with doing the changes after you find that the maintainer is not responsive. If the maintainer is responsive, he will a) do the changes b) give you the permission to do it c) give reasoning on why the proposed changes should not be done. Regards, Petteri --------------enigB9B9D348A0909EA8ED461067 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGs6rScxLzpIGCsLQRAocuAJ9FUUMAZ8BjUfGsOEqGKObVsn7dmQCgj7pB iROnRgcPLIMkT79XytJ3TTY= =+Bcs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB9B9D348A0909EA8ED461067-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list