From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GJqfQ-0002WT-Tb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:01:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k83C0d0r005455; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 12:00:39 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k83BwCIn000789 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 11:58:13 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C1F864FBB for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 11:58:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30370-20 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 11:58:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ACA364FE4 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 11:58:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GJqbv-0006Jy-7x for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:57:59 +0200 Received: from ppp-62-245-208-150.dynamic.mnet-online.de ([62.245.208.150]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:57:59 +0200 Received: from genstef by ppp-62-245-208-150.dynamic.mnet-online.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:57:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Stefan Schweizer Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:57:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20060903112049.29f5026e@c1358217.kevquinn.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-62-245-208-150.dynamic.mnet-online.de User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.526 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.073, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.526 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 21944703-d95a-416e-a03f-b0474641520e X-Archives-Hash: bb7a55136a8461e81d076e28a51cbd1d Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > I don't think it's a good idea for devs to be putting stuff into the > tree without taking responsibility for it. sure I can put myself in there but it will help no one because I cannot test the thing. Furthermore I am actually part of maintainer-needed and commit fixes there. I am also on the maintainer-needed email alias. Also maintainer-needed makes obvious to everyone that they do not have to ask me to fix sth. or take over the package -> less communication overhead. > I would expect that either > the herd is set appropriately (which means either the committer be a > member of the herd, or the herd explicitly agree to be proxy), which is the case here. > or the > committer be listed as a maintainer email address along with whoever is > being proxied. the committer in this case has no interest in maintaining the thing. And for proxying it does not matter who is proxying. > Further I believe bugs against such packages should be > assigned to the @gentoo.org address (proxy maintainer if there is one, > herd otherwise), and CC'ed to the proxied maintainer address. this does not allow the actual maintainer to close the bug and causes a lot of bugspam for a person who does not care about it and should be only contacted in the end to commit fixes/patches/bumps. Regards, Stefan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list