-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/02/2012 10:21 AM, hasufell wrote: > As I was told in my recruiting process we usually don't just fix up > ebuilds of other devs unless it's trivial, very severe or something. > > The usual process is nothing new: try to contact the maintainer, open a > bug, set a deadline when you will go and fix yourself. > > Only question is now what is a sane soft limit, before you go on and fix > stuff. >>From a discussion in #gentoo-dev we thought 2-4 weeks depending on the > severity of the bug is fine. Ofc this should exclude major changes or > delicate packages from base-system/core/toolchain. > > I tried to document that a bit: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445402 > > any objections? This is nothing new, just a clarification of already > existing policy and a reminder. > > If we are going to document this policy and make it official (which since it's not documented it's not official) then it only makes sense to have an opt-out option. I personally don't wish to see my users suffer for 2-4 weeks because I'm busy and people are pretending to be polite.
I have no issue with this policy, but to do it without an explicit option to opt-out is not acceptable to me. I would suggest something in the metadata.xml under the maintainer section. We could have a specific maintainer section : <maintainer><name>help welcome></name></maintainer> or a specific tag to put under our own maintainer section <maintainer><name>Rick Farina</name><demeanor>just fix it</demeanor></name> I currently, and will continue to maintain a completely open policy on my packages. To write in the rules that this is not acceptable would be more than rude. Thanks, Zero PS> I don't actually mean for either of those suggestions to be used mind you, it's just an example. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQva/iAAoJEKXdFCfdEflKFkwP/jBl4I1qFtTPFh52FfBJF7yX h4fQSisiYYFitwzWDVoxjkAbKdfdSTxmevkJfRUfIz7AG+8rBjrndHJscwQQXCCm 3533r5B0ql6cXI38pb7WSJdc6xplXx1NVTsPFwxn7rmJVKddFPfa8nOv1dUfjjFN 16Yc6B2oV9rfb0AkaUdnAYNJLgjP5gL7AXIJoScUcPVXJZ/glWp/ADmlN+sKsKoy bOBe1Hbm2Z5tTNPun4zOqKtb34daBbLjbtYHz4fR2r+MdbgHQKUIdO1z8iBE6+fR /cOCbN+64jG7Yz3G1n+6rXfFBocRjkin8fEk4hXaZ7FkHOa5w7ONRNFvqmQ+BBfa 4SlI/scZ6lEDMi4GDFMdX/ShdaptXvHYcaJIKyE//EP6Q40Ijtqe2HUv1eUjbR5V /HfTapF8YnxX6NZwQPTihpMv3TCneTbKH3anHuWLR3wK0SAMraP6zqYIImfPG0Pt ePm+dRQ6ocZIoDuGroYX9gInqLRqeI+2EWFLMvN3VkDq358N1tX5PhGfTw6AUCw7 ao3iZkE3n49xywSYzDAsschoV7iWoJfBdSYbcqRcok/3Z1sEBRd6P2wc6NMFJbO3 rWpCDj3vrg08Up6CJIgAsh4r3e5McAcvwycTcWEaDCDgRujjcJN6iN5JR4zur5AK JNc0sFc3rrPHo4Pyu079 =ZBY6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
