Re: [gentoo-dev] Soliciting input for a non-maintainer update (NMU) GLEP

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

On 22 June 2013 02:42, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:06:30PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Friday 21 June 2013 20:26:03 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 08:17:38PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> > > > I'm not going into review systems here at all, I'm simply trying to
>> > > > have a policy of what changes are welcomed/blocked WITHOUT interaction
>> > > > from the listed maintainer(s) of a given package/herd.
>> > >
>> > > add a new field to metadata.xml that declares the state.  make it an enum:
>> > >   ANYTHING_GOES   (the default)
>> > >   REQUIRES_HERD
>> > >   REQUIRES_MAINTAINER
>> >
>> > I wish it was that easy.
>> >
>> > Despite being ANYTHING_GOES on most of my packages, I don't want people
>> > to add giant features like qmail patchbombs; so we need to figure out
>> > something like the Debian NMU listing of what's acceptable.
>> the maintainers intent has to be machine codable
> So we have the following facets of NMU permissions:
> Who
> What
>
>> > Does a version bump count as an acceptable trivial change?
>> that's up to the maintainer
> This needs to be in the above data:
>
> So we have:
> Who = {ANYTHING_GOES, REQUIRES_DEV, REQUIRES_HERD, REQUIRES_MAINTAINER}
> What = {NONE, TRIVIAL, MINOR_FEATURES, VERSION_BUMP, MAJOR_FEATURES}
>
> So most of my packages might be coded with:
> <nmu-policy who="REQUIRES_DEV" what="VERSION_BUMP" />
> <nmu-policy who="REQUIRES_HERD" what="MAJOR_FEATURES" />
>
> - If you're a developer, you can do trivial fixes, add minor features,
>   bump the version.
> - If you're in the herd, you can add major features.
>
> --
> Robin Hugh Johnson
> Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
> E-Mail     : robbat2@gentoo.org
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>

This sounds pretty reasonable to me.

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Regards,
Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
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