From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 83EDA138239 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:59:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E73BCE0B65; Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:59:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3A9CE0B30 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:59:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-io1-f43.google.com (mail-io1-f43.google.com [209.85.166.43]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mattst88) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6A5E934C1AB for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:59:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-io1-f43.google.com with SMTP id r144so6454458iod.8 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:59:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAVwl33/rCwfdwTGboULDGjMD/vsOLCr6TLw1qIUR+AoSvyovYuq QzEv51zsh3ZiJnE1tHc//CsMTW2VsD1WI/T900I= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqz6KfY7IRza8QY+X03ZlfviymUD2pfSt1XKoPWiTN8RloT5e7wHQ0/ptTqpSzqoW/8l0JkHMIa61jHUZrkA8+U= X-Received: by 2002:a02:7f93:: with SMTP id r141mr1146001jac.68.1571705942487; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:59:02 -0700 (PDT) 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20191022133642.41590ee5@katipo2.lan> In-Reply-To: <20191022133642.41590ee5@katipo2.lan> From: Matt Turner Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:58:51 -0700 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: change to default policy of doing changes to packages that are maintained by other developers To: gentoo development Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 0f773c08-2c5d-4693-a8bb-88d050495cdc X-Archives-Hash: 4cfcbf8b08885c2a05d4fbc306235c7c On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 5:37 PM Kent Fredric wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 19:37:28 +0200 > Piotr Karbowski 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.