Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds

["Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zerochaos@gentoo.org>]

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On 12/02/2012 10:21 AM, hasufell wrote:
> As I was told in my recruiting process we usually don't just fix up
> ebuilds of other devs unless it's trivial, very severe or something.
> 
> The usual process is nothing new: try to contact the maintainer, open a
> bug, set a deadline when you will go and fix yourself.
> 
> Only question is now what is a sane soft limit, before you go on and fix
> stuff.
>>From a discussion in #gentoo-dev we thought 2-4 weeks depending on the
> severity of the bug is fine. Ofc this should exclude major changes or
> delicate packages from base-system/core/toolchain.
> 
> I tried to document that a bit:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445402
> 
> any objections? This is nothing new, just a clarification of already
> existing policy and a reminder.
> 
> 
If we are going to document this policy and make it official (which
since it's not documented it's not official) then it only makes sense to
have an opt-out option.  I personally don't wish to see my users suffer
for 2-4 weeks because I'm busy and people are pretending to be polite.

I have no issue with this policy, but to do it without an explicit
option to opt-out is not acceptable to me.  I would suggest something in
the metadata.xml under the maintainer section.  We could have a specific
maintainer section : <maintainer><name>help welcome></name></maintainer>
or a specific tag to put under our own maintainer section
<maintainer><name>Rick Farina</name><demeanor>just fix it</demeanor></name>

I currently, and will continue to maintain a completely open policy on
my packages. To write in the rules that this is not acceptable would be
more than rude.

Thanks,
Zero

PS> I don't actually mean for either of those suggestions to be used
mind you, it's just an example.
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