From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: change to default policy of doing changes to packages that are maintained by other developers
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:58:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdQ38GZ+jXtoxCUiV+ZAc-WPWXR=Rj4DyOhq+-YJh0zxvYLVA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191022133642.41590ee5@katipo2.lan>
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 5:37 PM Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 19:37:28 +0200
> Piotr Karbowski <slashbeast@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > This is a bit unhealthy, especially when some developers that maintain
> > packages are out of reach, or the patches to update ebuild just rot on
> > the bugzilla and are not taken in by maintainers.
>
> IME this is far from the norm and should not be used as the
> justification here.
I think exceptional cases are the reason for many, many policies in
Gentoo. That probably doesn't surprise you.
> If you don't have the patience to even wait _one_ day for a response,
> maybe you shouldn't be doing opensource.
I'm not sure what this is in reference to so it seems to be a
non-sequitur, but I like the policy of at least waiting a day for
review of non-critical fixes. Phrased another way, let people in every
timezone have a chance.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-22 0:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-21 17:37 [gentoo-dev] Proposal: change to default policy of doing changes to packages that are maintained by other developers Piotr Karbowski
2019-10-21 18:06 ` Matthew Thode
2019-10-22 0:36 ` Kent Fredric
2019-10-22 0:58 ` Matt Turner [this message]
2019-10-22 4:07 ` Kent Fredric
2019-10-22 0:55 ` Matt Turner
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