Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-11 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 08:28:31AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > While I generally agree that a merge request is a more polite and > elegant solution, if a package is listed as FTBFS (having had a bug > automatically opened) and some reasonable amount of time (two, three > weeks?) has

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-11 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 9:49 PM Gary Buhrmaster wrote: ... > > FTBFS issues are, admittedly, complicated, but > such updates SHOULD be via a PR. If a PP wants > to claim they cannot follow that process, they need > to demonstrate that a particular packager is not > responsive (there is a process

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-10 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 5:39 PM Sérgio Basto wrote: > Maybe we should have a flag in the src.fp.o package for the maintainer > to request a PR before committing to have a window for review, or like > me, the maintainer would like to not be bothered with things that > proven package can do by

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-10 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Thu, 2023-12-07 at 11:41 +0100, Michal Schorm wrote: > On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 11:21 AM Florian Weimer > wrote: > > Asking individual maintainers for trivial changes does not scale.  > > The > > alternative would be not to address FTBFS and other build issues, > > maybe > > file bugs, and rely

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-07 Thread Jonathan Steffan
On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 3:26 AM Michal Schorm wrote: > I'd advise to create PR - wait week or 2, > if left without response - create BZ for the specific PR as not > everyone watches PRs and PR notifications, and wait week or two, > if left without response - send a direct mail to the package

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-07 Thread Felix Schwarz
Am 02.12.23 um 09:46 schrieb Michal Schorm: In my experience through the years, I've found very little proven packagers that would work in what *I would see* as the right way. I fully agree with you but I wanted to mention Miro + the Python team. From my experience in the Python packaging

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-07 Thread Michal Schorm
On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 11:21 AM Florian Weimer wrote: > Asking individual maintainers for trivial changes does not scale. The > alternative would be not to address FTBFS and other build issues, maybe > file bugs, and rely on active maintainers instead. The alternative we want to achieve is: (1)

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-07 Thread Michal Schorm
On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 11:36 AM Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > IMHO all changes should be opened as merge requests in pagure. This gives > the regular package maintainers a window of opportunity to review the > change before it is merged. If there's no response from the package > maintainer after a

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Kevin Kofler via devel: > Michael J Gruber wrote: >> I am sick of this. Really. I am so sick of this way of stomping on each >> others' feet. > > My pet peeve is provenpackagers or comaintainers who add unwanted > automagic (autorelease, autosetup, autochangelog) to my packages. I do > not want

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-05 Thread Michael J Gruber
Richard W.M. Jones venit, vidit, dixit 2023-12-05 12:03:36: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 10:35:35AM +, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 11:18:57AM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > Granted, these are dissimilar to initial Michaels's issue. But how can I >

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 10:35:35AM +, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 11:18:57AM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > [snip] > > > Granted, these are dissimilar to initial Michaels's issue. But how can I be > > sure that if I touch some of the packages, I won't be told that they

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-05 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 11:18:57AM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: [snip] > Granted, these are dissimilar to initial Michaels's issue. But how can I be > sure that if I touch some of the packages, I won't be told that they were in > such state for purpose? IMHO all changes should be opened as merge

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-05 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 05. 12. 23 v 5:56 Jason Tibbitts napsal(a): Kevin Kofler via devel writes: My pet peeve is provenpackagers or comaintainers who add unwanted automagic (autorelease, autosetup, autochangelog) to my packages. That really shouldn't be happening for anything which wasn't officially made

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-04 Thread Jason Tibbitts
> Kevin Kofler via devel writes: > My pet peeve is provenpackagers or comaintainers who add unwanted > automagic (autorelease, autosetup, autochangelog) to my packages. That really shouldn't be happening for anything which wasn't officially made mandatory or forbidden or whatnot. Sure, I

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 3:48 AM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > My pet peeve is provenpackagers or comaintainers who add unwanted automagic > (autorelease, autosetup, autochangelog) to my packages. I do not want any of > that in my packages, it just makes my work harder (or in practice, just >

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-04 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Michael J Gruber wrote: > I am sick of this. Really. I am so sick of this way of stomping on each > others' feet. My pet peeve is provenpackagers or comaintainers who add unwanted automagic (autorelease, autosetup, autochangelog) to my packages. I do not want any of that in my packages, it just

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-02 Thread Maxwell G
On Fri Dec 1, 2023 at 16:26 +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote: > So, due to me following my package (notmuch) upstream and testing early > against upstream's git, reporting and working with upstream, I noticed a > FTBFS and helped fixing it. Nothing urgent since it was basically just a > test failing

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-02 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 03:41:54PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: [snip] > If there isn't anything wrong with the work of the other maintainer, > then I guess I don't understand. They did something in an honest > attempt to save you the trouble and because of unfortunate timing they > didn't

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-02 Thread Michal Schorm
In my experience through the years, I've found very little proven packagers that would work in what *I would see* as the right way. I too despise random interventions from the higher power to my packages. I rejoiced when the new process of removing inactive proven packagers took place. And I'd

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-01 Thread Mamoru TASAKA
Sérgio Basto wrote on 2023/12/02 0:49: On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 16:26 +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote: So, due to me following my package (notmuch) upstream and testing early against upstream's git, reporting and working with upstream, I noticed a FTBFS and helped fixing it. Nothing urgent since it

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-01 Thread Michael J Gruber
Jason L Tibbitts III venit, vidit, dixit 2023-12-01 22:41:54: > So I've been in this situation, both on the receiving end of nasty flames > because I dared touch someone else's package and having duplicated work > because I didn't check before trying to update something. > > > Michael J

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-01 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
So I've been in this situation, both on the receiving end of nasty flames because I dared touch someone else's package and having duplicated work because I didn't check before trying to update something. > Michael J Gruber writes: > So, due to me following my package (notmuch) The idea is

Re: Proven to be sickened

2023-12-01 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 16:26 +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote: > So, due to me following my package (notmuch) upstream and testing > early against upstream's git, reporting and working with upstream, I > noticed a FTBFS and helped fixing it. Nothing urgent since it was > basically just a test failing

Proven to be sickened

2023-12-01 Thread Michael J Gruber
So, due to me following my package (notmuch) upstream and testing early against upstream's git, reporting and working with upstream, I noticed a FTBFS and helped fixing it. Nothing urgent since it was basically just a test failing for the wrong reasons. Within a few days, upstream releases a