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On 06/21/2013 09:42 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:06:30PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Friday 21 June 2013 20:26:03 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 08:17:38PM -0400, Mike Frysinger
>>> wrote:
>>>>> I'm not going into review systems here at all, I'm simply
>>>>> trying to have a policy of what changes are
>>>>> welcomed/blocked WITHOUT interaction from the listed
>>>>> maintainer(s) of a given package/herd.
>>>>
>>>> add a new field to metadata.xml that declares the state.
>>>> make it an enum: ANYTHING_GOES (the default) REQUIRES_HERD
>>>> REQUIRES_MAINTAINER
>>>
>>> I wish it was that easy.
>>>
>>> Despite being ANYTHING_GOES on most of my packages, I don't
>>> want people to add giant features like qmail patchbombs; so we
>>> need to figure out something like the Debian NMU listing of
>>> what's acceptable.
>> the maintainers intent has to be machine codable
> So we have the following facets of NMU permissions: Who What
>
>>> Does a version bump count as an acceptable trivial change?
>> that's up to the maintainer
> This needs to be in the above data:
>
> So we have: Who = {ANYTHING_GOES, REQUIRES_DEV, REQUIRES_HERD,
> REQUIRES_MAINTAINER} What = {NONE, TRIVIAL, MINOR_FEATURES,
> VERSION_BUMP, MAJOR_FEATURES}
>
> So most of my packages might be coded with: <nmu-policy
> who="REQUIRES_DEV" what="VERSION_BUMP" /> <nmu-policy
> who="REQUIRES_HERD" what="MAJOR_FEATURES" />
>
> - If you're a developer, you can do trivial fixes, add minor
> features, bump the version. - If you're in the herd, you can add
> major features.
>
This is actually pretty sane... I like this idea.
- -Zero
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