Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Luca Barbato
Grant Goodyear wrote: [something I'd say in a less effective way] +1 -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Josh Saddler
Alec Warner wrote: > Don't be an asshole > Don't screw up* > * Corollary: if you do screw up, take responsibility and fix it/find > someone to help you. DON'T MAKE IT WORSE. Indeed, agreed. An excellent response. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Alec Warner
Timothy Redaelli wrote: > Hi, > I want to propose a "Maintainer Timeout" such as FreeBSD. > If a maintainer or herd does not fix (or assign/comment) a bug in a > reasonable amount of time (2 weeks? 3 month?) any developer can fix it > (or a pre established group of developers such as QA) > > Thank

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:19:21 -0600 Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [lots of good stuff] I was going to respond to Timothy's proposal in much the same way - but Grant has said everything much better than I would have done! +lots Grant :) -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:19 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: > I have mixed feelings on the notion of "ownership" of ebuilds. When > Gentoo had only a handful of devs, the tree was almost entirely > collectively owned by all devs, with baselayout and portage being the > only packages that were labell

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Grant Goodyear
Timothy Redaelli wrote: [Fri Feb 02 2007, 04:17:32AM CST] > I want to propose a "Maintainer Timeout" such as FreeBSD. > If a maintainer or herd does not fix (or assign/comment) a bug in a > reasonable amount of time (2 weeks? 3 month?) any developer can fix it > (or a pre established group of devel

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Tobias Scherbaum wrote: >> I want to propose a "Maintainer Timeout" such as FreeBSD. >> If a maintainer or herd does not fix (or assign/comment) a bug in a >> reasonable amount of time (2 weeks? 3 month?) any developer can fix it >> (or a pre established group of developers such as QA) > > There's

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
> I want to propose a "Maintainer Timeout" such as FreeBSD. > If a maintainer or herd does not fix (or assign/comment) a bug in a > reasonable amount of time (2 weeks? 3 month?) any developer can fix it > (or a pre established group of developers such as QA) There's a little difference between "do

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Hi, I want to propose a "Maintainer Timeout" such as FreeBSD. If a maintainer or herd does not fix (or assign/comment) a bug in a reasonable amount of time (2 weeks? 3 month?) any developer can fix it (or a pre established group of developers such as QA) Thanks for your time :) -- Timothy `Drizzt