Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > Essentially, if the problem is with the ebuild or the way the package > is integrated into gentoo, then fixing it immediately is fine. If the > problem is with the software itself, then usually upstream needs to be > involved before the fix will occur in gentoo.
Yes that's fair of course. None of the handful issues I've had so far while building 900 packages were about upstream however. > Also, Emailing patches to the maintainer is much less > acceptable/desirable than filing them through bugzilla. As a > developer, I find it much easier to grab patches from this nice > centralized bug-tracking filing system than to have to organize them > in email, and git integration is not something I see changing this. Have you tried gerrit? It is really a leap ahead. //Peter
