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 1ECOML-0006AN-JC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:18:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j85LEbKL021455; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 21:14:37 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 j85LCvsb021791 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 21:12:57 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECOK2-0002Mz-3H for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:16:10 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ECOIX-0003Xt-HC for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:14:37 +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 23:14:37 +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 23:14:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: R Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: tentative x86 arch team glep Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:12:58 -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> <431C7A0A.8050606@gentoo.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: f9d9f830-2d59-48f7-8283-7b28402d132d X-Archives-Hash: dff9dfbc0ef1ed6e7931f3ca22a8143d On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:02:02 -0500, Mike Doty wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > R Hill wrote: > [snip] > | 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. > You are missing the whole point of an AT. ATs have no inherit power, they > arn't even officialy gentoo people(yet). All an AT can do is comment on > the particular piece of software in question. > > An arch team(not AT) could disregard the package maintainers thoughts and > move said package to stable before the maintainer does on his arch. ~ > However, this should be the exception, and not the rule. Okay, that's what i originally thought. But after seeing all the controversy this is causing, i figured i must have been mistaken and AT's must be tiny gods or something. Now i'm just confused and a little hungry. Either way, i'm just saying whoever is doing the bumping could drop a quick note to the pkg maintainer before the fact. It's only polite. --de. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list