On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:50:24PM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: > It'd be great if you could all grab a few of them, notify the last > uploader that you're cracking on them and get them done. I'm sure > there's a lot of packages we can just sync from Debian.
It might just be me, but I find it tedious to have to notify people that I'm doing their merges. As Paul Sladen put it on IRC yesterday: 'Ubuntu wins by not having a "maintainer lock". Lets not start trying to enforce one'. This makes a lot of sense to me. During either Dapper or Breezy (don't remember) the procedure was to file a bug saying that you were working on a merge. I liked the idea that there was a single place to check to see if anyone else was working on a particular merge. No implied ownership or anything. I did, however, find that particular process a bit too heavyweight. I'm not sure why. It's not that I want to "steal" other people's work (what would be the point?), it's just that when I start working on merges, I'd like to be able to do a whole bunch of them in a row without having to stop all the time to ask people if it's ok that I touch their packages. For now, I'm managing by only picking the ones that were done by people who are not #ubuntu-motu regulars. It all seems especially silly since after the merge has been done, there is no ownership at all. If a bug is filed on a particular package, everyone is free to fix it. Just assign the package to yourself, and that's it. Maybe if every merge was filed as a bug on launchpad with a "universe-merge" tag and when someone decided to work on it, they'd assign themselves to the bug. The person who did the previous merge would be subscribed right away, but *not* assigned. Would that make sense? Am I all alone in the world with this view? -- | Soren Hansen | Linux2Go | http://Linux2Go.dk/ | | Seniorkonsulent | Lindholmsvej 42, 2. TH | +45 46 90 26 42 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 9400 Norresundby, Denmark | GPG key: E8BDA4E3 |
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