On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:00:57 -0400 Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetrom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Tomáš, considering that libreoffice and libreoffice-bin were both > broken on ~arch (so ~arch users did not have a compatible office > suite to fall back on); the bug had 33 people in the CC list; a > working patch was submitted, with a justification for why it is the > correct solution, and was verified to work; and your response was > (paraphrased) "I will look at this later" - I personally think that a > small violation of openoffice team policies could in this particular > case be forgiven. > > In addition, the policy itself is IMHO rather strange. > > If the goal is to ensure that any gentoo patch is visible to upstream > developers and to libreoffice maintainers from other distros, so that > they can merge it if they agree with the implementation, surely it > would make no difference whether the patch got submitted to gerrit by > Patrick before committing to gx86, or by you a week later? [1] > > On the other hand, if the goal is to avoid any divergence from > upstream, presumably you want to first obtain feedback from upstream > developers and an indication that they will merge the patch - in > which case merely submitting something to gerrit, without waiting for > upstream developer response, doesn't make sense. > > [1] on August 11, you had indicated that you would have time to look > at the bug in ~10 days time.
Your arguments make sense but you should also consider it the other way: When you are maintaining a package properly by forwarding patches upstream, having $randomdev jumping in, adding a patch, and letting you clean up the mess is kind of annoying. Part of Tomas' original email was: I've googled it for you, now would you please submit that patch upstream and be forgiven? Alexis.
