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 A11C41381F3 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:42:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C51EFE0AFE; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:42:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE48FE0A5C for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:42:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0A0933E4CF for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:42:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.306 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.306 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.218, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-1.522, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=unavailable Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id noEJe0rA5TRV for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:42:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1087D33E0B3 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:42:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UqO5D-0002hx-PH for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:42:27 +0200 Received: from ppp118-209-15-147.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net ([118.209.15.147]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:42:27 +0200 Received: from kensington by ppp118-209-15-147.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:42:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Palimaka Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Soliciting input for a non-maintainer update (NMU) GLEP Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 23:42:14 +1000 Message-ID: References: <201306212017.38571.vapier@gentoo.org> <201306212106.31519.vapier@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp118-209-15-147.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: c9860eeb-d456-4dea-8e39-53da93e1922d X-Archives-Hash: eaa19e9ae588cbf2c27842be1d543bc8 On 22/06/2013 11:42, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > 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: > > > > - 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. > It might be useful to have the capability for a free-form comment/instructions too. For example, we do all of our development in an overlay, and on occasion we lose changes that someone else has made in the tree because they don't know they need to be applied in two places.