-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz schrieb: > On 14:37 Tue 13 Aug , Rich Freeman wrote: >> If a maintainer is holding something up for months by all means >> escalate it if you think it is justified, but if a maintainer just >> wants a few days to look into things, that isn't asking too much. If >> this were a security patch I might feel differently, or a stable >> regression (though as has been pointed out that shouldn't happen with >> reverse dep testing). > > Turns out we already wrote this down. See "Touching other developers > ebuilds": > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/index.html > > "Otherwise a soft limit of 2 to 4 weeks depending on the severity of > the bug is an acceptable time frame before you go ahead and fix it > yourself."
This is only if the maintainer does not respond. In this case the maintainer made it clear that he didn't want those patches before they were submitted (not necessarily accepted) upstream. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SeaMonkey - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlILXMIACgkQ+gvH2voEPRDVGACeIHPGBf0/HZthRw8q5ID1VV/r Ga8An1NUeyG1MjfNfuMLLTF+5x8S7zzJ =/ud4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
