From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E451381F3 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 09:01:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0D52E0ACC; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 09:01:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 12AD8E09AD for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 09:01:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.4.5] (blfd-4d082218.pool.mediaWays.net [77.8.34.24]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hasufell) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DD33C33E6A6 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 09:01:48 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <51C567F8.6070503@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:01:44 +0200 From: hasufell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130606 Thunderbird/17.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Soliciting input for a non-maintainer update (NMU) GLEP References: <201306212017.38571.vapier@gentoo.org> <201306212106.31519.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1c484473-a643-4039-8c0f-5f62c0fde8bd X-Archives-Hash: 4df1467d9889efb723c343e377476a3e On 06/22/2013 03:42 AM, 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: > > > > - 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. > Sounds cool. I don't think we need a GLEP or council vote on that.