Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds

[Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>]

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On 3 December 2012 03:30, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> wrote:

>
> On Dec 2, 2012 6:09 PM, "Rich Freeman" <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:21 AM, hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > Only question is now what is a sane soft limit, before you go on and
> fix
> > > stuff.
> > > From a discussion in #gentoo-dev we thought 2-4 weeks depending on the
> > > severity of the bug is fine. Ofc this should exclude major changes or
> > > delicate packages from base-system/core/toolchain.
> >
> > Seems reasonable - I'd say 2 weeks is plenty.  Of course, if the
> > maintainer explicitly rejects the change in a posting on the bug, then
> > it is hands off without some kind of escalation.  Non-maintainers who
> > are concerned about a package can always step up to maintain, as long
> > as it involves real commitment.
> >
> > Oh, and on a side note Markos raises a valid point on the bug about
> > whether the devmanual is a good place for policy.  The problem is that
> > I'm not sure we really have a good place, especially with the ebuild
> > docs gone in favor of the devmanual now.
> >
> > Rich
> >
>
> Maybe adding some bits here[1] is preferred instead of the devmanual.
> Unless we agree to make devmanual a technical and non-technical document,
> which I personally don't like because it will end up being huge without
> some sort of indexing/search textbox for quick queries.
>
> [1]
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=2
>

In my opinion we should limit the amount of places where we document
policies and best practices. I suggest we keep only devmanual and PMS as
authoritative documents.

In that case we should go forward and add these kind of policies to the
devmanual.

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Cheers,

Ben | yngwin
Gentoo developer
Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin

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