On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 00:41 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > Chris Gianelloni kirjoitti: > > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 22:50 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> it's just so easy to step on other > >> ppls feet these days ;) > > > > I tend to agree that this is a problem, but only insofar as we've become > > too territorial. Many times I see bugs filed with seemingly minor > > changes being asked for. A good example is bug #173884 which is a > > completely valid request. The change is simple, removing > > "insinto /etc/env.d ; doins $somefile" and replacing it with "doenvd > > $somefile" instead. > > Or it's plain boring to fix that stuff and if you make people fix their > own packages first, the boring part is distributed. I for example would > fix the ChangeLog syntax problem for all ChangeLogs in the tree but I > know that it's damn boring so I just prefer to get the check into > repoman and let time deal with it. If I ever get to writing an automatic > fixer, I still you need to check the changes or otherwise I could be > committing broken fixes because of false positives.
You missed my point entirely. My point was that there's no reason that someone should *have* to file a bug. Everyone should be welcome to make changes like this on their own, without the maintainer being involved. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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