Hey guys, Every other day on IRC, I see people arguing about touching each others packages, despite our policies against it. (Sometimes it's even me who's doing the touching!) My instinctive reaction is always, "can't everybody calm down and be happy somebody is doing your work for you?" The answer to this question is, of course, that it depends who the developer is and how competent you are.
So, nothing new here. I don't want to bikeshed about it. Business as usual. I thought I'd do something loose and informal to rectify the problem. See my package-policy.txt on my developer space: http://dev.gentoo.org/~zx2c4/package-policy.txt Do what this says, and everything will be good. I encourage other developers to post package-policy.txt with the same URL scheme. This is a nice loose and informal stopgap solution. If others want to follow suit, great. If not, welp, there mine is. Moving forward, we can come up with a more formal solution for this. I'LL START A NEW THREAD FOR THAT; DON'T REPLY HERE ON THAT TOPIC. Thanks, Jason -- Jason A. Donenfeld Gentoo Linux Security & Infrastructure zx...@gentoo.org www.zx2c4.com zx2c4.com/keys/A28BEDE08F1744E16037514806C4536755758000.asc
