On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Mark Loeser <halc...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> said: >> On Tuesday 09 March 2010 23:08:24 Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> > We have about 500 bump request open at the moment: >> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=bump >> > >> > I assume that quite a few of them would be no big deal to their >> > maintainers in Gentoo. >> > >> > >> > Bugday is occupying the first Saturday of the month: how about bumpday >> > on the third Saturday of the month? First bumpday could be March 20th, >> > 10 days from now. >> > >> > What do you think? >> >> for the maintainer-needed ones, np. for the ones with maintainers, i think >> you need an ack from someone first. > > I don't even think the maintainer-needed ones should be bumped. Who > knows what bugs you are introducing into the tree. This is why things > eventually get treecleaned. > > As Mike said, for ones with maintainers, don't touch them unless you > have explicit permission. We have maintainers for a reason, and if you > don't know the intricacies of the package, you shouldn't be touching it. > You should know how it works, how to test it, and what the normal > problems of a bump are. > > With that being said, I don't really see the point of a bumpday. These > day ideas are ignoring the fact that we don't have enough active developers, > which is the real problem. >
We have plenty of developers, the problem is we have too many packages ;p -A > -- > Mark Loeser > email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org > email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com > web - http://www.halcy0n.com > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFLl6+3CRZPokWLroQRAp07AKDgqdRi1gWsIp0wG+QLIaYEXss5OwCdHNZ6 > Owj8ESEixDWVN03OwJV53EQ= > =F2pI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
