Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-20 Thread wieseltux23
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > > >>On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:28:55AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> >> >>>Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> - don't NMU for feature requests (i.e., wishlist bugs) without the mai

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:28:55AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > - don't NMU for feature requests (i.e., wishlist bugs) without the > > > maintainer's prior approval > > > Shouldn't NMU's without the

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:28:55AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - don't NMU for feature requests (i.e., wishlist bugs) without the > > maintainer's prior approval > Shouldn't NMU's without the maintainers approval be restricted to RC and > maybe imp

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-19 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > > - send mail to the bug with a full diff *before* uploading your package to > > incoming; two minutes before, two hours before, two days before, it > > doesn't matter > > And make sure that the mail has actually left your system... (real life > exper

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Frank Küster
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We should really document the result of this discussion in the developers' reference, which currently says: , | NMUs which fix important, serious or higher severity bugs are | encouraged and accepted. ` This I always interpreted as "

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > Shouldn't NMU's without the maintainers approval be restricted to RC and > maybe important bugs? No, unless you add some sort of timeframe. MIA or otherwise absent maintainers are the usual reason why one needs NMUs. -- "One disk to rule them all, On

Re: NMU policies for etch [Was: Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch]

2005-10-18 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Ter, 2005-10-18 às 01:03 -0700, Steve Langasek escreveu: > I think a good balance would be something like: What if all NMUs are delayed for N days, but if maintainer agrees the NMU skips the delay... daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Frank Küster
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Olaf van der Spek] >> If there's no approval, shouldn't 'that' be fixed also? > > Depends on the form of the lack of approval. If there is no reply, > the MIA process should be started, and if there is a NACK, the NMU > should not go throught with

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Olaf van der Spek] > If there's no approval, shouldn't 'that' be fixed also? Depends on the form of the lack of approval. If there is no reply, the MIA process should be started, and if there is a NACK, the NMU should not go throught without further discussion. But one should not have to waint

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 10/18/05, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Frank Küster] > > Shouldn't NMU's without the maintainers approval be restricted to RC > > and maybe important bugs? > > Well, assuming we want as many bugs as possible fixed before the > release, and not only RC bugs, I believe NMUs sh

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Frank Küster] > Shouldn't NMU's without the maintainers approval be restricted to RC > and maybe important bugs? Well, assuming we want as many bugs as possible fixed before the release, and not only RC bugs, I believe NMUs should be possible for all kinds of bugs. With maintainer approval if po

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think a good balance would be something like: > > - send mail to the bug with a full diff *before* uploading your package to > incoming; two minutes before, two hours before, two days before, it > doesn't matter And make sure that the mail has act

NMU policies for etch [Was: Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch]

2005-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:33:04AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >It's easy to understand why people are opposed to too-frequent NMUs. They > >don't want to be seen as bad maintainers for having too many NMUs on their > >packages; they worry about new bugs being introduce