[Mageia-dev] packaging savoir-vivre

Tue Dec 20 01:41:38 CET 2011

Hello!
+
+What do you think of marking packages on which we (or our apprentices) 
+are working?
+
+I've experienced that when we are working on a package - even if it is 
+noticed on Bugzilla, Mageia-Dev or elsewhere - someone may simply 
+check-out the package, bump version or make some changes (resolve a 
+bug), check-in. We know that making changes in a long spec, may take 
+days or even month (a lot of sources, large installation-tree, patches 
+to review, consulting upstream etc), and rapid changes can do nothing good.
+
+Today I talked on it, how to prevent a package from being localized by 
+someone and simply bumped without asking.
+
+So what do you think on marking packages that are underdevelopment?
+
+I think it's good to just simply mark it in the 1st line of a svn-spec: 
+"# (name) date message", e.g. "# (john) 2011.12.20 please don't touch 
+this package, I'm working on it right now, it may take a few weeks" or 
+"# (john) 2011.08.23 don't update the version, it won't match current KDE".
+
+There is already a list of sensitive packages here 
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Sensitive_packages maybe just it is 
+sufficient for 10,000 packages distribution?
+