From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Li6kC-000315-Im for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:44:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 660B0E0441; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:44:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3945BE0441 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:44:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so1335409ywq.46 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:44:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HwWf8GzdHEnS0ajgIDoOty9nvNXOapchB0thd+Z7PDw=; b=XLsRp8RezzuOHCCBES3rPcEqpptWOJyRmwxOSb2ayT6DkopbxJP3QYHJUNF/5JxJ1D qtH+TIfz38pZrXktEAC1MgbctNUtvV1i4a7pedMVF3DM8/BWMMu7TtttjBzb3BT3aZ90 cZqoBGxbG041Ws8DZ/zv9MUvAtW+V3r9sxYig= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=wi+lEC+ZNAzk0a3P0OOtDVdPDUP3eBPdP+qPyIqOSgFrbf2PlsXGqjS+AVqh0YINHj /uXxcGq6hHEeLnugTP6ZPX3iUqp8dtlJb01ENDbykzk1nVOkDsnCYAOUa1HGroDrEjjA J478I74Jh+JINy8Z+WH2FytEzxmxh0iNJDLE0= 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 Sender: g2boojum@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.156.20 with SMTP id d20mr2100913ybe.102.1236948246947; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:44:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200903130924.03143.bangert@gentoo.org> References: <1236132096.2522.4.camel@localhost> <200903130924.03143.bangert@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:44:06 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: a294e566e582be5e Message-ID: <7c0bd41c0903130544xde70317gf03bfd6ddd617768@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to speed up maintenance and other Gentoo work? From: Grant Goodyear To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d0605365-3e7b-4d28-abf6-537b973e724c X-Archives-Hash: 0d74dff2ea07ad0b058932c0881f5b4d On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Thilo Bangert wrote: > one thing that could perhaps speed up gentoo is specifying at what point > or what steps are required before it is ok to "step on others toes". > > we have the QAcanfix keyword, for bugs where QA "threatens" to just fix > the bug if the maintainer doesn't react timely... but it appears to be the > tree could generally move faster, if there was an agreement as to when > somebody is allowed to fix another maintainers stuff. > > if we had a formal process in place, one could always execute on that and > fix the issue oneself, instead of having the cheap excuse of "well, > hasnt fixed bug xxx yet, so i cant move". > > this process should ideally be very lean and short - as to not discourage > these type of changes. Heh. I always liked the old policy: Don't break stuff. If you're sure you know what you're doing, and you're not going to break stuff, then do what needs to be done. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear web: http://www.grantgoodyear.org e-mail: grant@grantgoodyear.org