> On Nov 3, 2016, at 8:21 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld <zx...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Nick Vinson <nvinson...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Just doing that one little thing would have prevented or shutdown the >> arguments I have seen. > > Yes, obviously of course. > > But sometimes it's just easier and quicker to meddle in somebody > else's ebuild to improve a particular situation. The question is thus > how do we make this permissible? My proposal is adding a metadata.xml > tag -- <yes-you-can-meddle-in-my-affairs>. > > Jason >
Although metadata.xml is one way to do this, since it is more of a social thing than a technical one I think it might be better to wikify it instead -- each dev can list their "please fix my package" preferences in a per package or per anything-with-them-as-maintainer spec in one location. The previous round of this had a bunch of devs make comments to effect of its fine for any dev to commit changes as long as the committee takes responsibility for it, it'll take a bit of time but we can probably compile those from irc logs and -dev@ and start the list. Thoughts?
