Re: Proxy maintainers in metadata.xml (was Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds)

2012-12-08 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 18:51:36 + Markos Chandras wrote: > Bug-wranglers are supposed to do that by default. When you see a > non-gentoo developer in metadata.xml, the default action is to assume his is > the real maintainer and the bugs should be assigned to him. Such > guidance should be docume

Re: Proxy maintainers in metadata.xml (was Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds)

2012-12-06 Thread Markos Chandras
On 6 December 2012 15:27, Peter Stuge wrote: > Markos Chandras wrote: >> This policy is for the bug-wranglers project, which someone must >> read before he attempts to do any bug-wrangling. >> I see no reason to move this to devmanual. > > The reason is that I as a developer (whenever I become one

Re: Proxy maintainers in metadata.xml (was Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds)

2012-12-06 Thread Peter Stuge
Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > Essentially, if the problem is with the ebuild or the way the package > is integrated into gentoo, then fixing it immediately is fine. If the > problem is with the software itself, then usually upstream needs to be > involved before the fix will occur in gentoo. Yes that

Re: Proxy maintainers in metadata.xml (was Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds)

2012-12-06 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/12/12 10:27 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > [ Snip! ] In the last 15 hours I've dealt with several trivial bugs > that I've found fixes for in bugzilla but which were not committed > anywhere. > > I've committed them to my overlay and that's fine for

Re: Proxy maintainers in metadata.xml (was Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds)

2012-12-06 Thread Peter Stuge
Markos Chandras wrote: > This policy is for the bug-wranglers project, which someone must > read before he attempts to do any bug-wrangling. > I see no reason to move this to devmanual. The reason is that I as a developer (whenever I become one) want to be able to fix stuff right now that is broke

Re: Proxy maintainers in metadata.xml (was Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds)

2012-12-06 Thread Markos Chandras
On 6 December 2012 11:02, Ben de Groot wrote: > > > > On 5 December 2012 02:51, Markos Chandras wrote: >> >> On 4 December 2012 17:28, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina >> wrote: >> > On 12/04/2012 12:06 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: >> >> Or maybe we can just agree that common sense rules all, and we al

Re: Proxy maintainers in metadata.xml (was Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds)

2012-12-06 Thread Ben de Groot
On 5 December 2012 02:51, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 4 December 2012 17:28, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina > wrote: > > On 12/04/2012 12:06 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > >> Or maybe we can just agree that common sense rules all, and we always > >> set the proxied maintainer as assignee, and the pro

Re: Proxy maintainers in metadata.xml (was Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds)

2012-12-04 Thread Markos Chandras
On 4 December 2012 17:28, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/04/2012 12:06 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: >> On 04/12/2012 08:01, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: >>> I feel the description field is already overloaded when there is a proxy >>>

Re: Proxy maintainers in metadata.xml (was Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds)

2012-12-04 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 04/12/2012 10:35, Sergey Popov wrote: > Agreed. I add description field to metadata for proxying packages, cause > i see such field in other packages' metadata. That is it. But it would > be better when this became official policy. At least - define actual > maintainer first, even if he is not d

Re: Proxy maintainers in metadata.xml (was Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds)

2012-12-04 Thread Sergey Popov
04.12.2012 21:28, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > A quick "site:devmanual.gentoo.org proxy" search indicates no > documentation of this at all. > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/proxy-maintainers/index.xml?style=printable > > This page exists, but doesn't really mention anything about proper

Re: Proxy maintainers in metadata.xml (was Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds)

2012-12-04 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/2012 12:06 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 04/12/2012 08:01, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: >> I feel the description field is already overloaded when there is a proxy >> situation, maybe it would be best to define a field for this. Also

Proxy maintainers in metadata.xml (was Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds)

2012-12-04 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 04/12/2012 08:01, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > I feel the description field is already overloaded when there is a proxy > situation, maybe it would be best to define a field for this. Also > english isn't primary language for everyone in the world so if the > policy could actually be speci