From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7324D1381F3 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 13:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F35021C00F; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 13:28:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f181.google.com (mail-ob0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D8E4E001D for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 13:28:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f181.google.com with SMTP id oi10so6142149obb.40 for ; Thu, 06 Dec 2012 05:28:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=81XgZbTlC+a7zG/xeQgxI2pAAulLFcLN6+SHUZ/mbRk=; b=e1jkj0lOH3po1pmNCB+oElxSy1alJsK65Y/CLsvoQpvpJ3rVUfE/JLqMFcFg78Ujze a0kbNwI8tngrw/uxY5VzJYzR+c57EitYopW5YnoiV4yySmyM/s6VpT9v8fhu4xTLl5Yd eE/vwvNzAPfrNhB1qTHXJ9JHKTrhBXYp5dteq1xxp6Wf0TNNohd1kA3JKfADRLhvO6Wa dem4Ybeky5iHF4X8TjdO9JwLLCHzesSlJ0mLdMG/UXfpSuftAxx0++mQWDtPbzBZh/0x yKHRFOjrmHmoLwxTaxU3L571jWc1MkyUUmlFmfbaanxBu+EeH6kiuPKCboVz5FkNsTRq hBlg== 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 Received: by 10.182.98.19 with SMTP id ee19mr758398obb.90.1354800492495; Thu, 06 Dec 2012 05:28:12 -0800 (PST) Sender: markos.chandras@gmail.com Received: by 10.76.28.169 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 05:28:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <50BB71DD.4080308@gentoo.org> <50BDAFE2.6000702@gentoo.org> <50BE1E3E.9070406@gentoo.org> <50BE2D95.1000201@flameeyes.eu> <50BE32B9.6010205@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 13:28:12 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: xCPkP19a99bk8RtFB5zBm6A2y9I Message-ID: Subject: Re: Proxy maintainers in metadata.xml (was Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds) From: Markos Chandras To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 0f85b3f8-6638-4995-876f-1fcbbfd051e1 X-Archives-Hash: ef801830153203c28c79475743cc1f26 On 6 December 2012 11:02, Ben de Groot wrote: > > > > On 5 December 2012 02:51, Markos Chandras wrote: >> >> On 4 December 2012 17:28, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina >> wrote: >> > On 12/04/2012 12:06 PM, Diego Elio Petten=F2 wrote: >> >> Or maybe we can just agree that common sense rules all, and we always >> >> set the proxied maintainer as assignee, and the proxy maintainer as >> >> CC.. >> > >> > >> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/proxy-maintainers/index.xml?style=3Dp= rintable >> > >> > This page exists, but doesn't really mention anything about proper bug >> > assignment. I know a lot of you have been doing this a very long time >> > and there is a 'standard' way of doing things, but for us new guys if >> > there is no documentation there is no policy. >> >> Bug-wranglers are supposed to do that by default. When you see a >> non-gentoo developer in metadata.xml, the default action is to assume >> his is >> the real maintainer and the bugs should be assigned to him. Such >> guidance should be documented in the bug-wranglers project page and >> not on the >> proxy-maintainers one. >> > > Actually, as I have been arguing elsewhere, scattering policies over > multiple documents is not helpful. So this should be documented in > devmanual. > > -- > Cheers, > > Ben | yngwin > Gentoo developer > Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin This policy is for the bug-wranglers project, which someone must read before he attempts to do any bug-wrangling. I see no reason to move this to devmanual. However, it is possible to add a note on metadata.xml section in devmanual to explain how to structure a metadata.xml file for proxy maintainers. --=20 Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2