Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-28 Thread Gustavo Franco
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Russ Allbery wrote: > >>You just lost the people that I'm talking about. I can explain a >>changeset, but merges are deep black magic that are extremely difficult to >>understand except at a highly abstract level, and when using a distribu

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-28 Thread skaller
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:37 -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > it's > just a matter to publish the patches (a good PQM will do that for you) > and let the others branch' maintainers do the merge when necessary. Publishing patches is a serious pain in the backside and a huge impediment to cooperation.

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-28 Thread Gustavo Franco
skaller wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:37 -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > >> it's >>just a matter to publish the patches (a good PQM will do that for you) >>and let the others branch' maintainers do the merge when necessary. > > > Publishing patches is a serious pain in the backside > and a hu

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-28 Thread skaller
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:27 -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > skaller wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:37 -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > > >> it's > >>just a matter to publish the patches (a good PQM will do that for you) > >>and let the others branch' maintainers do the merge when necessary. >

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:13:31PM +1100, skaller wrote: > This is how Wikipedia works and why it is successful. With minimal > fuss I have contributed some comments and a couple of changes. How easy is it for a Wikipedia comment to contain a rootkit, though? - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-28 Thread Gustavo Franco
> (...) > I wasn't addressing your point specifically. Instead, I'm raising > another one. The whole Debian system is a serious pain and an > impediment to cooperation. Ubuntu is not much better. > > I should not have to be a DD to commit to > the archive -- ANYONE should be able to commit perhaps

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-28 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 13:05 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:13:31PM +1100, skaller wrote: > > This is how Wikipedia works and why it is successful. With minimal > > fuss I have contributed some comments and a couple of changes. > > How easy is it for a Wikipedia comment t

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-28 Thread skaller
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 23:50 -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > (...) > > I wasn't addressing your point specifically. Instead, I'm raising > > another one. The whole Debian system is a serious pain and an > > impediment to cooperation. Ubuntu is not much better. > > > > I should not have to be a DD

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
skaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I might be willing to package some of these things myself. What puts me > off is not doing the packaging work -- its having to hassle about > getting a DD to upload it. And then hassle them every time there is an > upgrade. I don't really like hassling people