Re: [gentoo-dev] Soliciting input for a non-maintainer update (NMU) GLEP

[Michael Weber <xmw@gentoo.org>]

On 06/21/2013 08:50 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
[NMU]

Abstract: Be verbose about your preferences.

== TL;DR ==

I'm missing this kind of information since the beginning.
After 2 (?) years, i've learned some policies, like herd:desktop-* is
free for all, don't touch herd:base-system and so on. But I did not keep
records of every fella granting me full access.


As a maintainer and slacker (as flameeyes pointed out), I singularily
maintain my share of packages [1] with a rich variety of affection.

Less/singular affection (like the miredo/sbin/ip mishap, a package i
proxied for a friend), I work on rand maintainer-needed@g.o packages,
don't take maint and try to watch bugzie for follow ups.
-> just go ahead and do what you think is right

Total, regular affection, (cwm, ncdc, ncdu, mupdf (+derivates), llpp,
netsurf, jumanji) and basically my inital commits.
-> give me at least two days to review changes.

Either way, go ahead, BUT I __really__ like being informed about an NMU
carried out, nothing sucks more than doing the update and see
repoman+cvs reject the update (yeah, work on an fresh checkout blah blah).

As an impatient person with an urge to fix things, I often commit on
random stuff, after asking or timeout. I'd like to propose three
positions to post information about NMU-policy, preferred way of
communication, affection to bulk-mail|reports|...|euscan update|KEQWORDREQ

- Every dev as person, like an devaway.
- Every herd, somwhere in herds.xml
- Every Package-category (for project-categories like vim/kde/gnome/)
(it'd be usefull to fetch and provide this info as equery meta output).

(Yes, I've broken and will break things, my sincerest apologies, I
really try hard. Thanks for ssuominen being a encouraging example.)

At some point I'm really scared about reactions in the past and avoid
certain areas, persons and really basic|widespread stuff like zsh (bug
19924, [2]).

my 2 cents.

[1] http://euscan.iksaif.net/maintainers/48/
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19924

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