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

[Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>]

On 11/23/12 22:32, Thomas Sachau wrote:
> Ian Stakenvicius schrieb:
>> On 22/11/12 11:22 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:22:10PM -0600, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>>>> On 11:11 Sun 18 Nov     , Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>>>>> Here's a list of every package where I'm a maintainer and there
>>>>> is no herd listed (but their might be other maintainers):
>>> I didn't say I was dropping any of the packages, merely making an 
>>> explicit list of packages I maintain, that other developers are
>>> welcome to touch - if they want to take them over explicitly, that
>>> would be great too.
>>
>>
>> ..  For certain things, I think it would be very beneficial for this
>> to be true (other dev's welcome to touch) across the tree.  Maybe if
>> there is enough general support for it, we should change our default
>> of "never touch a maintainer's package without permission of the
>> maintainer/herd", to "OK to touch unless package metadata explicitly
>> requests not to" ...?  And we can put a tag in the metadata to
>> indicate this (or even to indicate what other dev's can and can't
>> touch -- ie, can touch *DEPEND, can bump EAPI, cannot add features,
>> cannot bump)?
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
> 
> What certain things do you have in mind? In wich situation do you see a
> simple "May i touch the package?/ok for this patch?" as too much to do
> before touching a package?
> 
To me it's random noise, if I'm in the package metadata just do it. No
need to distract me :)

And there's tons of packages that have a "maintainer" in metadata and
bugs just go into nirvana (like apache)...