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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How about a monthly bumpday?
From: Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Mark Loeser <halcy0n@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> said:
>> On Tuesday 09 March 2010 23:08:24 Sebastian Pipping wrote:
>> > We have about 500 bump request open at the moment:
>> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=3Dbump
>> >
>> > I assume that quite a few of them would be no big deal to their
>> > maintainers in Gentoo.
>> >
>> >
>> > Bugday is occupying the first Saturday of the month: how about bumpday
>> > on the third Saturday of the month? =C2=A0First bumpday could be March=
 20th,
>> > 10 days from now.
>> >
>> > What do you think?
>>
>> for the maintainer-needed ones, np. =C2=A0for the ones with maintainers,=
 i think
>> you need an ack from someone first.
>
> I don't even think the maintainer-needed ones should be bumped. =C2=A0Who
> knows what bugs you are introducing into the tree. =C2=A0This is why thin=
gs
> eventually get treecleaned.
>
> As Mike said, for ones with maintainers, don't touch them unless you
> have explicit permission. =C2=A0We have maintainers for a reason, and if =
you
> don't know the intricacies of the package, you shouldn't be touching it.
> You should know how it works, how to test it, and what the normal
> problems of a bump are.
>
> With that being said, I don't really see the point of a bumpday. =C2=A0Th=
ese
> day ideas are ignoring the fact that we don't have enough active develope=
rs,
> which is the real problem.
>

We have plenty of developers, the problem is we have too many packages ;p

-A

> --
> Mark Loeser
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