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 hwoar...@gentoo.org 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

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 hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 4 December 2012 17:28, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org 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

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 yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 5 December 2012 02:51, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 4 December 2012 17:28, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org wrote: On 12/04/2012 12:06 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Or maybe we can just agree

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 broken

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 me,

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's

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 pe...@stuge.se 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

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: 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