On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Thilo Bangert <[email protected]> wrote: > one thing that could perhaps speed up gentoo is specifying at what point > or what steps are required before it is ok to "step on others toes". > > we have the QAcanfix keyword, for bugs where QA "threatens" to just fix > the bug if the maintainer doesn't react timely... but it appears to be the > tree could generally move faster, if there was an agreement as to when > somebody is allowed to fix another maintainers stuff. > > if we had a formal process in place, one could always execute on that and > fix the issue oneself, instead of having the cheap excuse of "well, > <slowguy> hasnt fixed bug xxx yet, so i cant move". > > this process should ideally be very lean and short - as to not discourage > these type of changes.
Heh. I always liked the old policy: Don't break stuff. If you're sure you know what you're doing, and you're not going to break stuff, then do what needs to be done. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear web: http://www.grantgoodyear.org e-mail: [email protected]
