public inbox for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
Search results ordered by [date|relevance]  view[summary|nested|Atom feed]
thread overview below | download: 
* Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role
  @ 2006-02-28 16:04 99%     ` Mike Frysinger
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 1+ results
From: Mike Frysinger @ 2006-02-28 16:04 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

On Monday 27 February 2006 11:47, Lance Albertson wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:53:20 -0800 Donnie Berkholz
> >
> > <spyderous@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > | The maintainer should be the absolute authority over his/her packages,
> > | and only the council should be able to overrule maintainer decisions
> > | in the case of disagreement between the maintainer and anybody else.
> >
> > So if the maintainer sticks SANDBOX_DISABLE="1" rm -fr / in global scope
> > and refuses to move it, QA will have to get council approval to fix it?
>
> Use some common sense when showing an example please. We all know that
> something that stupid needs to be delt with quickly.

we've had at least one ebuild do stuff in /tmp in global scope ... of course 
that was a mistake the dev felt really bad about and it was fixed once 
noticed, so not sure this is an appropriate example ;)
-mike
-- 
gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list



^ permalink raw reply	[relevance 99%]

Results 1-1 of 1 | reverse | options above
-- pct% links below jump to the message on this page, permalinks otherwise --
2006-02-26 22:22     [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role Mark Loeser
2006-02-27 16:35     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-02-27 16:47       ` Lance Albertson
2006-02-28 16:04 99%     ` Mike Frysinger

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox