[Mageia-dev] packaging savoir-vivre

Wed Dec 28 23:26:22 CET 2011

Op dinsdag 20 december 2011 01:41:38 schreef Kamil Rytarowski:
+> 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?
+
+
+imho the best solution is that everyone checks if there's a maintainer for it 
+and asks maintainer first...
+
+i mean, it's all nice that it's in the spec file, but i think people who bump, 
+rarely look inside spec file... (not saying any names)
+
+if something has got to be checked, maintainership is a good place to start
+
+if we would have some kind of page which would list the activeness of 
+maintainers, via gathering info from commits/bugzilla/mailinglist/forum/ stuff, 
+that could be a nice place too. then we could see if this maintainer is 
+actually inactive or not. i would hope this would lessen the amount of people 
+just bumping stuff if they don't maintain it...
+