On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 22:50 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > it's just so easy to step on other > ppls feet these days ;)
I tend to agree that this is a problem, but only insofar as we've become too territorial. Many times I see bugs filed with seemingly minor changes being asked for. A good example is bug #173884 which is a completely valid request. The change is simple, removing "insinto /etc/env.d ; doins $somefile" and replacing it with "doenvd $somefile" instead. Now, this is something that *anyone* with commit access should feel comfortable doing to *anyone's* packages without fear of being attacked for touching someone else's packages. Unfortunately, we're all a bit too territorial over what we keep in the tree sometimes. If we had more explicit freedom to touch other people's packages for minor things, we would go a lot further towards the goal of being a community of mutually respectful people working towards a common goal. Our rule of thumb here is pretty simple... "If you touch it, don't break it. If you break it, fix it." Some people have become too frightened to touch packages for even typo fixes due to the territoriality of some of our developers. We need to fix this and have a more open and welcoming feeling for new developers and old developers alike. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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