On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 30, 2016, at 04:10 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > >>> I'm just going thru Lintian report and fixing few warnings. >> >>but for this yes. > > But why get pre-approval for *this* particular commit?
the point is not for this specific commit (and I jbrought this up to him once i got this email as it was the second package I am maintainer for receiving this change) > Which change do you have a problem with? debian/copyright is a rather delicate (and sometimes annoying, let's face it) file, a change to it requires the one doing the upload to actually check that what's been updated actually matches reality, which is just extra/unplanned work > I genuinely want to know because I do think we need to > have clear guidelines about what our teammates are allowed to work on. > > A while ago, we did hash out the semantics of team in Maintainers vs > Uploaders. Because commits are always reversible, I don't have any problem > with our current rules for team-in-Uploaders. It's the compact we make by > having team maintained packages, and I for one think it's a good trade-off. I > appreciate the help in cleaning up our collective packages. yeah but changing copyright is a little bit more intrusive than fixing a typo or s/http/https/ > >>well, collaborative work kinda requires agreement on what that work >>would be, and also is not that collaborative to commit whatever you >>see fit and then let somebody else deal with it in a next upload. but >>hey "it's me"... > > I think we should generally assume that our teammates know what they're doing > and have the skills and courtesy to follow the rules. like we assume with sponsorees, but still we double check everything they do > I recently noticed that > Ondrej committed some changes to fix our Vcs- urls to https, and I think that > was a nice thing to do! and in fact i havent said anything (even if it could have been announced to the list and the commit message could have been a *lot* better, but that might be categorized as nitpicking) > For a mass change like this, Ondrej should have followed up with an email to > the list. But he wasn't outside the bounds to make the change. -- Sandro "morph" Tosi My website: http://sandrotosi.me/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SandroTosi _______________________________________________ Python-modules-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/python-modules-team
