On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:02:02 -0500, Mike Doty wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > R Hill wrote: > [snip] > | How about the ATs cc the maintainer on the bug they file to get the pkg > | bumped to stable, and giving them a period of time (48 hours? a week?) > | in which to raise any objections. Of course the AT's would still have > | the power to go over the maintainers head in case of an emergency - but > | only if the maintainer can't be reached, or can't do it themselves for > | whatever reason, or is just being a big dink. > You are missing the whole point of an AT. ATs have no inherit power, they > arn't even officialy gentoo people(yet). All an AT can do is comment on > the particular piece of software in question. > > An arch team(not AT) could disregard the package maintainers thoughts and > move said package to stable before the maintainer does on his arch. ~ > However, this should be the exception, and not the rule.
Okay, that's what i originally thought. But after seeing all the controversy this is causing, i figured i must have been mistaken and AT's must be tiny gods or something. Now i'm just confused and a little hungry. Either way, i'm just saying whoever is doing the bumping could drop a quick note to the pkg maintainer before the fact. It's only polite. --de. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
