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On 01-03-2010 06:39, Markos Chandras wrote:
On Friday 26 February 2010 18:40:47 Alec Warner wrote:
You mistake the intent I think. We deploy automation because humans
fail; even when they have the best intentions. We make typos, copy
and paste
On Friday 26 February 2010 18:40:47 Alec Warner wrote:
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org
wrote:
Stop.
Is introduction of such a high level of bureaucracy really a good idea?
In my eyes it could backfire and make matters worse as people either
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote:
Stop.
Is introduction of such a high level of bureaucracy really a good idea?
In my eyes it could backfire and make matters worse as people either
- start ignoring it due to high noise
- reduce people's activity
On Thursday 25 February 2010 08:22:17 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Robin H Johnson wrote:
Metadata.xml should allow use of a changepolicies element. Within
the element, package maintainers should be able to describe how
non-maintainer changes to the package are handled.
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Markos Chandras wrote:
Could we allow this element in the category metadata files, too?
Its value there would be the default for the category, with the
possibility to override it for individual packages.
How are you so sure that a general rule can apply to a whole
On 02/25/2010 02:41 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
On Thursday 25 February 2010 08:22:17 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Robin H Johnson wrote:
Metadata.xml should allow use of achangepolicies element. Within
the element, package maintainers should be able to describe how
On 24-02-2010 23:41:26 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
Proposed types:
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- version-bump
- trivial-version-bump
- trivial-fixes
- fixes
- enhancements
- qa-fixes
- trivial-qa-fixes
Isn't the QA team by its definition allowed to fix QA issues? If so, I
don't see a point in
Stop.
Is introduction of such a high level of bureaucracy really a good idea?
In my eyes it could backfire and make matters worse as people either
- start ignoring it due to high noise
- reduce people's activity below set permissions
To summarize presented proposal has a few points that may not
I'm forking this thread from -core, so we can have some useful
discussion about the idea, and then somebody can take it to the
gentoo-dev list.
This needs a lot more polishing still, and I'm not happy with some of
the semantics (esp. policy is too harsh a word for what we are trying
to convey).
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Robin H Johnson wrote:
Metadata.xml should allow use of a changepolicies element. Within
the element, package maintainers should be able to describe how
non-maintainer changes to the package are handled.
Could we allow this element in the category metadata files, too?
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