On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 05:27:03PM +0200, David Seifert wrote: > On Mon, 2022-07-04 at 16:19 +0200, Florian Schmaus wrote: > > I'd like to propose a new metadata XML element for packages: > > > > <non-maintainer-commits-welcome/> ... > Ultimately, all these things really matter when only the defaults > change. Turn-right-on-red in the US is such a thing, because unless > otherwise stated, it's the norm. Knowing our devbase, with roughly 75% > mostly AWOL and barely reading the MLs, I don't think this idea will > bring about the desired change. Instead, we should really just go for > the <non-maintainer-commits-disallowed/> tag, because my feeling is that > the default will be that most maintainers don't mind non-maintainer > commits, except a select few territorial ones.
I had a rough draft similar proposal to this before that was never completed into GLEP. It had 3 states however: a) go ahead and touch it, no additional approvals needed b) please get a maintainer to approve it c) do not touch it With b) being the proposed default as status-quo at the time. That however was years ago, and I'll entirely agree that the devbase isn't as watchful anymore. With that said, I stand behind the intent of making the default a), with a migration period. Something like this for the migration period: July 1 to Sep 30: default is still b), to allow developers time to update their metadata. Oct 1 onwards: default becomes a) -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136
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