> On 5 Jul 2022, at 00:21, Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > 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.
https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=137184067920894&w=2 and possibly a later version too if anyone is interested like I was. The discussions there are pretty interesting if nothing else. Best, sam
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