Re: [gentoo-dev] Soliciting input for a non-maintainer update (NMU) GLEP

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 03:04:11PM -0400, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > - How should developers, herds & teams communicate how welcome they
> > are to NMU changes on their packages?
> The way I've been doing this is:
> - packages I maintain through herd -> go ahead and be responsible.
> - if I add myself explicitly in metadata.xml this means I prefer at
>   least reviewing every change that gets in (with some exceptions for
>   trivial changes, like e.g. qt moving category)
That's fine for packages in a herd, but doesn't scale, and doesn't
handle packages without a herd.

> > - How do we encourage responsible ownership of changes that cause
> >   breakage? [1]
> That's something I'd like to get enlightened on. The, probably too
> emotional, algorithm that doesn't scale I've been applying has been:
Your portion is also if you are the one that found it. You might not be
the person that finds it.

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