On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 03:50:06 +0700 > "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" <m...@mva.name> wrote: > >> You're right in all remarks, but Maxim is just proxy here. > > And that's where the whole proxy maintainership falls down, isn't it? > The committer should check for and take responsibility for any QA > issues that may arise.
Not having seen the original email, this is just a generalization. Sure, those who commit are responsible for QA, but in general we should be going easy on them, especially for minor stuff. If nobody is willing to commit then there will be no proxies. Look at Linus as an example - do you think he tests half the code he merges personally? He probably doesn't even own hardware for 80% of the drivers in the kernel. What he does do is ensure that he can trust the people who feed stuff to him, and deal with them when they drop the ball. I see that as the role of a Gentoo dev who is proxying - they do provide a level of quality, but their main role should be to liaison with the proxy maintainer and ensure that they are keeping up their end of the bargain. Rich
