Re: [gentoo-dev] proxy-maintainers herd as a backup herd for all the user-maintained packages
On 5 March 2013 15:07, Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:09:47 + Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: If there is at least one Gentoo developer in metadata.xml we assume the package is properly maintained by him so we never touch it. Sounds fine. I for one am converted (and the packages I maintain in that fashion). jer This is happening today. There are about 390 packages that need fixing so I will take care all of them (and CC proxy-maint on open bugs as well) -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
Re: [gentoo-dev] proxy-maintainers herd as a backup herd for all the user-maintained packages
On 17 March 2013 13:47, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 5 March 2013 15:07, Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:09:47 + Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: If there is at least one Gentoo developer in metadata.xml we assume the package is properly maintained by him so we never touch it. Sounds fine. I for one am converted (and the packages I maintain in that fashion). jer This is happening today. There are about 390 packages that need fixing so I will take care all of them (and CC proxy-maint on open bugs as well) -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang Everything should now be in place. If you notice a problem please either let me know or fix it yourself. Apologies for the bug-spam. -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
Re: [gentoo-dev] proxy-maintainers herd as a backup herd for all the user-maintained packages
On 5 March 2013 03:41, Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:35:24 + Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: A number of packages in the tree are maintained by a Gentoo developer and a user. As a result of which, we are unable to monitor these packages in bugzilla. This is useful in case one of the maintainers goes MIA so we can find an alternative maintainer for them. So I am kindly asking you to add the proxy-maintainers herd as a backup herd for the packages that you proxy-maintain. I will go ahead and do it myself in two weeks if you don't want to bother fixing your metadata. If you want your packages to be excluded please let me know. This is mainly for tracking purposes and we don't intend to take over the maintainership of your packages (unless you want us to). Excellent idea. But how will proxy-maint@ devs know not to take over? jer If there is at least one Gentoo developer in metadata.xml we assume the package is properly maintained by him so we never touch it. -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
Re: [gentoo-dev] proxy-maintainers herd as a backup herd for all the user-maintained packages
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:09:47 + Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: If there is at least one Gentoo developer in metadata.xml we assume the package is properly maintained by him so we never touch it. Sounds fine. I for one am converted (and the packages I maintain in that fashion). jer
Re: [gentoo-dev] proxy-maintainers herd as a backup herd for all the user-maintained packages
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:35:24 + Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: A number of packages in the tree are maintained by a Gentoo developer and a user. As a result of which, we are unable to monitor these packages in bugzilla. This is useful in case one of the maintainers goes MIA so we can find an alternative maintainer for them. So I am kindly asking you to add the proxy-maintainers herd as a backup herd for the packages that you proxy-maintain. I will go ahead and do it myself in two weeks if you don't want to bother fixing your metadata. If you want your packages to be excluded please let me know. This is mainly for tracking purposes and we don't intend to take over the maintainership of your packages (unless you want us to). Excellent idea. But how will proxy-maint@ devs know not to take over? jer
