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 4.43) id 1ECE5b-0000Z5-Ar for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:20:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j85AGl9E032295; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:16:47 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j85ADvHk015104 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:13:57 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECE2C-0000ho-A0 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:17:04 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ECE0C-0006cp-JL for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:15:00 +0200 Received: from 206-163-248-232.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca ([206.163.248.232]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:15:00 +0200 Received: from dirtyepic.sk by 206-163-248-232.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:15:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: R Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: tentative x86 arch team glep Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 04:12:31 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20050904143711.GD23576@dst.grantgoodyear.org> <1125863332.11366.89.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> <20050904210535.24ab8a39@snowdrop.home> <1125865598.11360.122.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-163-248-232.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 5e6a7c56-268f-43b1-8d4d-b96a87d6c340 X-Archives-Hash: 112cbde22661d4f28dd96222ba132e92 On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 21:26:37 +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote: > Why not talk to the package maintainers instead, and convince them that > you need a different version marking "maint" instead? Why "override" > (which, tbh, smacks of "we arch teams know best, life would be better > without package maintainers") when you could work with people instead? > You're *not* in competition with package maintainers. We're all supposed > to be working towards the same thing :) How about the ATs cc the maintainer on the bug they file to get the pkg bumped to stable, and giving them a period of time (48 hours? a week?) in which to raise any objections. Of course the AT's would still have the power to go over the maintainers head in case of an emergency - but only if the maintainer can't be reached, or can't do it themselves for whatever reason, or is just being a big dink. --de -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list