On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 03:04:11PM -0400, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > - How should developers, herds & teams communicate how welcome they > > are to NMU changes on their packages? > The way I've been doing this is: > - packages I maintain through herd -> go ahead and be responsible. > - if I add myself explicitly in metadata.xml this means I prefer at > least reviewing every change that gets in (with some exceptions for > trivial changes, like e.g. qt moving category) That's fine for packages in a herd, but doesn't scale, and doesn't handle packages without a herd.
> > - How do we encourage responsible ownership of changes that cause > > breakage? [1] > That's something I'd like to get enlightened on. The, probably too > emotional, algorithm that doesn't scale I've been applying has been: Your portion is also if you are the one that found it. You might not be the person that finds it. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
