On 24-02-2010 23:41:26 +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Proposed types: > --------------- > - version-bump > - trivial-version-bump > - trivial-fixes > - fixes > - enhancements > - qa-fixes > - trivial-qa-fixes
Isn't the QA team by its definition allowed to fix QA issues? If so, I don't see a point in explicitly allowing qa-fixes of any kind, since it's implicit for the QA team that is supposed to do this. For QA its probably good to get people in the loop anyway, so they learn, instead of just find their packages fixed in one way or another. In general it feels like if you really want to allow a very high degree of modifications to your ebuilds as "maintainer", perhaps it is better to introduce a special group of ebuilds that have in the best case someone watching over them every now and then, but are not tied to "someone". Almost sounds like "maintainer-needed": looking for someone who really cares about this package, perhaps even users welcome for proxy maintenance. Another thing may be just the "maintainer-timeout" thing, that simply says that if the maintainer doesn't respond to requests for a change/update, you are allowed to perform the change. Normal sanity and responsibility rules apply of course. Some bugs just hang around for even years with multiple devs commenting on them, and the maintainers just not responding at all. Seems like in such case a time-out rule says more than a once written metadata element. Maybe we just shouldn't try to own something, but rather be the first to say something about it. Maybe we should try to identify (groups of) packages that are way more important than others (think of ... python?) and mark them as needing special care, treatment and barriers before any dev would feel like touching them. Perhaps that would just mean rings of developer ranks where the inner circle is QA or something? The more you are on the outside, the less you are allowed to touch by policy. As learning process, making the thin line of the Gentoo quizes too access all or nothing more fine-grained and hopefully community controlled? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
