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 12/02/2012 10:21 AM, hasufell wrote: As I was told in my recruiting process we usually don't just fix up ebuilds of other devs unless it's trivial, very severe or something. The usual process is nothing new: try to contact the maintainer, open

Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds

2012-12-04 Thread Markos Chandras
On 4 December 2012 01:18, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 3 December 2012 03:30, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Dec 2, 2012 6:09 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:21 AM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: Only question is now

Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds

2012-12-04 Thread Markos Chandras
On 4 December 2012 08:10, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/02/2012 10:21 AM, hasufell wrote: As I was told in my recruiting process we usually don't just fix up ebuilds of other devs unless it's trivial, very severe or

Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds

2012-12-04 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 4 December 2012 01:18, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 3 December 2012 03:30, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Dec 2, 2012 6:09 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 2, 2012

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 04:23 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: On 4 December 2012 08:10, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/02/2012 10:21 AM, hasufell wrote: As I was told in my recruiting

Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds

2012-12-04 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/2012 05:01 PM, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: maintainer emailf...@gentoo.org/email nameMe/name descriptionProxy maintainer, assign bugs to proxied maintainer, cc on bugs, but feel free to just fix the bugsdescription /maintainer I

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 specific

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 12:01 PM, hasufell wrote: On 12/04/2012 05:01 PM, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: maintainer emailf...@gentoo.org/email nameMe/name descriptionProxy maintainer, assign bugs to proxied maintainer, cc on bugs, but feel free to just

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

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 12:32 PM, hasufell wrote: On 12/04/2012 06:17 PM, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: I'm sorry but isn't specific policy related to global policy? Why yes, yes it is. Unless they conflict, then no. On 12/04/2012 09:10 AM, Rick

Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds

2012-12-04 Thread hasufell
the patch has been modified to reflect Zero_Chaos suggestions: - tell where to look for herd or maintainer notes (such as touch at will): metadata.xml - explicitly say to contact other devs if unsure how to handle a situation, especially if it's a critical one commit

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

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 zeroch...@gentoo.org 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] introduce a soft-limit policy for changing other developers ebuilds

2012-12-04 Thread Markos Chandras
On 4 December 2012 15:42, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 4 December 2012 01:18, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 3 December 2012 03:30, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Dec 2, 2012 6:09