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

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

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On 06/21/2013 09:42 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:06:30PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Friday 21 June 2013 20:26:03 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 08:17:38PM -0400, Mike Frysinger
>>> wrote:
>>>>> I'm not going into review systems here at all, I'm simply
>>>>> trying to have a policy of what changes are
>>>>> welcomed/blocked WITHOUT interaction from the listed
>>>>> maintainer(s) of a given package/herd.
>>>> 
>>>> add a new field to metadata.xml that declares the state.
>>>> make it an enum: ANYTHING_GOES	(the default) REQUIRES_HERD 
>>>> REQUIRES_MAINTAINER
>>> 
>>> I wish it was that easy.
>>> 
>>> Despite being ANYTHING_GOES on most of my packages, I don't
>>> want people to add giant features like qmail patchbombs; so we
>>> need to figure out something like the Debian NMU listing of
>>> what's acceptable.
>> the maintainers intent has to be machine codable
> So we have the following facets of NMU permissions: Who What
> 
>>> Does a version bump count as an acceptable trivial change?
>> that's up to the maintainer
> This needs to be in the above data:
> 
> So we have: Who = {ANYTHING_GOES, REQUIRES_DEV, REQUIRES_HERD,
> REQUIRES_MAINTAINER} What = {NONE, TRIVIAL, MINOR_FEATURES,
> VERSION_BUMP, MAJOR_FEATURES}
> 
> So most of my packages might be coded with: <nmu-policy
> who="REQUIRES_DEV" what="VERSION_BUMP" /> <nmu-policy
> who="REQUIRES_HERD" what="MAJOR_FEATURES" />
> 
> - If you're a developer, you can do trivial fixes, add minor
> features, bump the version. - If you're in the herd, you can add
> major features.
> 
This is actually pretty sane... I like this idea.

- -Zero
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