From 1be510f9529cb082f802408b472a77d074b394c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:46:12 +0000 Subject: Add zarb MLs html archives --- zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-September/008144.html | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 136 insertions(+) create mode 100644 zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-September/008144.html (limited to 'zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-September/008144.html') diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-September/008144.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-September/008144.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7e564a726 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-September/008144.html @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS ! + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20MANDATORY%20READ%20%3A%207%20days%20before%0A%20misc%20unleashes%20CERBERUS%20%21&In-Reply-To=%3C4E737DD4.2070204%40colin.guthr.ie%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="008139.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="008146.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS !</H1> + <B>Colin Guthrie</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20MANDATORY%20READ%20%3A%207%20days%20before%0A%20misc%20unleashes%20CERBERUS%20%21&In-Reply-To=%3C4E737DD4.2070204%40colin.guthr.ie%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS !">mageia at colin.guthr.ie + </A><BR> + <I>Fri Sep 16 18:48:20 CEST 2011</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008139.html">[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS ! +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008146.html">[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS ! +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8144">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8144">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8144">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8144">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 16/09/11 14:39 did gyre and gimble: +><i> Le vendredi 16 septembre 2011 à 12:44 +0200, Guillaume Rousse a écrit : +</I>>><i> Le 16/09/2011 11:47, Sander Lepik a écrit : +</I>>>><i> 15.09.2011 21:43, Maarten Vanraes kirjutas: +</I>>>>><i> I have a script ready to set the last comittor (that's a full +</I>>>>><i> packager) as +</I>>>>><i> maintainer. perhaps it can be activated before the GREAT PURGE. +</I>>>><i> That's not so good idea. What we maybe can do is that we send out a +</I>>>><i> warning that if you commit to a package after the warning and the +</I>>>><i> package has no maintainer yet then you become one. So that people would +</I>>>><i> first check what they get on their name. Many packages were imported by +</I>>>><i> Anne, i'm not sure that she's going to maintain them all. :) +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> I would do something like that: +</I>>>><i> 2 months of warning period, if you touch package that has no maintainer +</I>>>><i> you become its maintainer. After 2 months we start dropping those +</I>>>><i> packages that have still no maintainer. +</I>>><i> This whole idea of 'touch a package, become its maintainer' assumes than +</I>>><i> anyone modifying a package has an obvious interest in it. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Then we can increase the heuristic, like "upgrade to a new version", or +</I>><i> "do several commit on it". Someone upgrading a package either : +</I>><i> - is interested in it for the package ( and thus would be a maintainer ) +</I>><i> - is interested into having it upgraded for using on another package +</I>><i> ( and thus, as a user of the rpm for another rpm, has a interest to not +</I>><i> make it disappear ). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> And i doubt that someone would do X commit on a rpm if not interested in +</I>><i> it. +</I> + +Are heuristics a good idea? How about just making mgarepo ask you if you +want to become the maintainer with a Y/n option (Y being default) when +you call submit on an unmaintained package. + +This should be simple enough that people genuinely maintaining it can +just hit return and also easy enough to opt out in the case of drive by +upgrades. + +Col + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited [<A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A>] +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor [<A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A>] + PulseAudio Hacker [<A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A>] + Trac Hacker [<A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A>] +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008139.html">[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS ! +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008146.html">[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS ! +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8144">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8144">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8144">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8144">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> -- cgit v1.2.1