No answer to easy bug policy
Lyos Gemini Norezel
lyos.gemininorezel at gmail.com
Sat Jul 12 06:01:32 UTC 2008
Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hmm,
>
> First of all, I agree that non-repsonsive ness to easy bugs and / or
> bugs with patches attached is an issue.
>
> But I'm not sure this is a good solution. There are really 2 problems
> here:
> 1) The person responsible for the package is letting these bugs linger
> 2) Others do not fix it, even though they could, because they are afraid
> of stepping on each other's toes, as you correctly point out.
>
> I feel that your policy completely fails to address 2), whereas that
> might be one of the more important points. For example I don't mind
> other people touching my packages _at all_, which can be seen from
> there ACL's. So we could have a policy that says that "easy fixes"
> (whatever the definition) may be done by anyone with CVS extras
> without a prior headsup, when the ACL's allow it. IOW, codify in
> policy that the ACL signals how much a developer minds other people
> touching his packages.
>
> Another possible solution would be a I don't mind my toes getting
> stepped on list in the wiki.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
How about both? A list in the wiki... AND ACLs.
I like this solution alot more than Rahul's proposal.
Lyos Gemini Norezel
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