Ian Stakenvicius schrieb: > On 22/11/12 11:22 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:22:10PM -0600, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >>> On 11:11 Sun 18 Nov , Robin H. Johnson wrote: >>>> Here's a list of every package where I'm a maintainer and there >>>> is no herd listed (but their might be other maintainers): >> I didn't say I was dropping any of the packages, merely making an >> explicit list of packages I maintain, that other developers are >> welcome to touch - if they want to take them over explicitly, that >> would be great too. > > > .. For certain things, I think it would be very beneficial for this > to be true (other dev's welcome to touch) across the tree. Maybe if > there is enough general support for it, we should change our default > of "never touch a maintainer's package without permission of the > maintainer/herd", to "OK to touch unless package metadata explicitly > requests not to" ...? And we can put a tag in the metadata to > indicate this (or even to indicate what other dev's can and can't > touch -- ie, can touch *DEPEND, can bump EAPI, cannot add features, > cannot bump)? > > Thoughts? > > >
What certain things do you have in mind? In wich situation do you see a simple "May i touch the package?/ok for this patch?" as too much to do before touching a package? -- Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer
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