On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:19 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: > I have mixed feelings on the notion of "ownership" of ebuilds. When > Gentoo had only a handful of devs, the tree was almost entirely > collectively owned by all devs, with baselayout and portage being the > only packages that were labelled "don't touch unless you really know > what you're doing". Pretty much everybody who had time fixed bugs in > ebuilds in the tree, whether the ebuilds "belonged" to them or not. > Today we have many more packages that require specialist knowledge to > maintain (either because the individual packages are extremely > complicated, or because they are part of an integrated system of > packages), and the devs that maintain those packages are understandably > touchy about having other devs break those ebuilds. For the majority of > packages in the tree, though, I'd like to encourage their maintainers to > be less possessive. If somebody wants to fix bugs in ebuilds that I > maintain, go right ahead. Just don't break it in the process, please.
Thanks Grant: this is--hands down--the best, clearest and most apropos response in this entire thread. I can only echo your feelings on it (and I would hope that those who've interacted with me know that). -- Seemant Kulleen Developer, Gentoo Linux -- [email protected] mailing list
