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 6A70E1387AB for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 22:07:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1300E0A61; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 22:07:38 +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 A030BE09F5 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 22:07:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (pool-173-52-87-124.nycmny.fios.verizon.net [173.52.87.124]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ryao) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8A3F033EE78; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 22:07:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5274262E.7070500@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 18:07:42 -0400 From: Richard Yao User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130925 Thunderbird/17.0.9 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 CC: Patrick Lauer Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] open season on other-dev's packages -- policy change? References: <20121123022210.GE4100@comet.hsd1.mn.comcast.net> <50AF84E9.2020608@gentoo.org> <50AF8916.9070004@gentoo.org> <50B1C234.40609@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <50B1C234.40609@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2MVAXTCangGbW9dNL5lE4l7Rd7joae2rn" X-Archives-Salt: 8f325541-f05e-4a7e-bdfe-8f6223fb21e2 X-Archives-Hash: 971e3b30027f468e513ae2aef35cd23e This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --2MVAXTCangGbW9dNL5lE4l7Rd7joae2rn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/25/2012 02:01 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > 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=20 >>>> 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 :) >=20 > And there's tons of packages that have a "maintainer" in metadata and > bugs just go into nirvana (like apache)... >=20 Too many bugs, not enough time. 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