From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NpQNl-0002fm-79 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:11:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A37DE0E69; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:11:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.145]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF69E0E5E for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 14so1527659qwa.10 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:11:31 -0800 (PST) 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 Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com Received: by 10.220.123.21 with SMTP id n21mr178540vcr.14.1268244691612; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:11:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100310144159.GV30005@halcy0n.com> References: <4B971B38.3070907@gentoo.org> <201003100735.32850.vapier@gentoo.org> <20100310144159.GV30005@halcy0n.com> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:11:31 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 455e364304c19ad1 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How about a monthly bumpday? From: Alec Warner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: aad2aadb-2194-4f54-9b91-53309bd2814f X-Archives-Hash: 6108803aa7f5a2190e88692cf999e8c8 On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Mark Loeser wrote: > Mike Frysinger 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 > email =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 - =C2=A0 halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org > email =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 - =C2=A0 mark AT halcy0n DOT com > web =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 - =C2=A0 http://www.halcy0n.com > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFLl6+3CRZPokWLroQRAp07AKDgqdRi1gWsIp0wG+QLIaYEXss5OwCdHNZ6 > Owj8ESEixDWVN03OwJV53EQ=3D > =3DF2pI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >