On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:40:54 -0300, "Gustavo Franco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 7/31/06, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:00:21 +0000, "Gustavo Franco" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> [...] >> >> > The packages that aren't under group maintenance and will never be, >> > needs more not so strict NMU rules. >> >> Why? >> > Due to the "my stuff, don't touch that!" current approach, but (again) > this is just IMHO. I disagree with that. (IMHO) I think that the "my stuff" approach has more to do with maintainer attitude than with NMU rules. I don't think that loosening the NMU rules will decrease the maintainers' possessiveness. The current rules already authorized all DDs to make NMUs, if you follow the procedures. And if you follow the current NMU rules, then the entire process will take, what, a couple of weeks? My own opinion is that if you loosen the NMU rules, we'll get more bad NMUs, which will result in more annoyed maintainers, which will increase possessiveness. (NMUs will be seen as sources of breakages, rather than as sources of fixes.) I also don't see why we would need to relax the NMU rules for all packages that are not under group maintenance. One of the packages that I maintain is extremely tiny (relatively speaking), and at the moment has a very slow upstream release cycle. If a normal-severity bug doesn't get fixed for two weeks, it's not the end of the world. And there is absolutely no reason why that package should be group-maintained -- adding a group would add more overhead, and produce no benefit. So I don't see why that package should have looser NMU rules than other packages, such as the GNUstep core library packages, which are maintained by a group (even though I'm basically the only one who maintains them), but has the potential of breaking other packages if it is broken. If we are going to loosen the NMU rules (or decrease the time for an NMU), I think it should be applied to all packages, and not just packages that are not group-maintained. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
