On 12/05/14 05:59, Pacho Ramos wrote:
Hi!
We found out that pulseaudio ebuild was modified by QA without QA
talking to the maintainers (gnome team) and without considering/updating
the relevant bugzilla issue at
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519530
In that link it's explained a bit more why the ebuild was written in
that way and the problems we try to avoid. We have then hardmasked that
version until it's discussed THERE how to handle that situations.
And would really appreciate that next time we are even notified about a
change is going to be committed and don't need to see it in
packages.gentoo.org (well, in my case I am not all the time on IRC...
but I read the mail often and, also, Gilles and Leio can also be
contacted on IRC. You can also simply send a mail to the alias and give
us at least some days of timeout).
Thanks a lot
I don't know the policy (I will read the relevant docs later) but its
seems to me to make good sense that, if it is not an emergency (ie the
tree is broken), that QA first inform the maintainer in a bug report
which can then be peer reviewed. QA can make mistakes (as in this case)
and that's okay if there is discussion. If it is an emergency, then I
would think QA should take the action of least interference to unbreak
the tree.
Bikeshed time ...
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