On 20:38 Mon 01 Jul , Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Rich Freeman schrieb: > > First, most people aren't going to quit over this. The maintainer > > doesn't have to do anything but not actively revert changes made by > > the project teams. > > I don't say that they quit altogether. Just that they may leave that > particular ebuild in portage alone (and continue in an overlay as was > suggested) because they don't want to have anything to do with the > changes that were forced upon them. I might instead suggest that people own the code they've written, even if it's just part of an ebuild. If I run into a Prefix bug in an ebuild, I'm going to ask the team that actually knows something about Prefix to look into it. Same should hold true for any other code — you add it, you accept the responsibility of dealing with it. It seems to me that there's a couple of issues that really bother people here: - The maintenance burden of any additional code; and - Overriding a maintainer's decisions on existing code. My suggestion helps to deal with the former, while I believe Rich has made a good point for the latter as part of larger changes that are either council-supported or have general consensus. When we voted GLEP 39 in ourselves (or joined while it existed), we agreed to respect the decisions of the leadership and structure we chose. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Analyst, RedMonk