On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 02:46 +0100, Tobias Hansen wrote: > Am 20.03.2012 01:44, schrieb Martin Erik Werner: > > Hello pkg-gamers, > > > > Commit access for all DDs have now been enabled for the pkg-games > > repositories. Based on a brief discussion with Pabs on IRC, we figured > > it would be nice to announce this to the debian-devel list or so, but > > also noted that it's not really clear what things DDs are expected to > > with the acces. > > > > It might be relevant to have a set of team guidelines regarding how we > > want our repositories to be used by non-maintainers of that particular > > package. > > > > I'm thinking that these guidelines should include both DDs and other > > members of the pkg-games team. > > > > The questions, as I see them, are: > > > > Should DDs and pkg-games members who want to improve packages.. > > > > 1. Contact maintainer before committing? > > > > 2. Commit freely, but let maintainer do the upload? > > > > 3. Commit and upload freely (though of course notify maintainer > > appropriately)? > > > > 4. Also follow a per-repository "override"? > > - $ echo "Please notify maintainer before committing" > README.source > > > > 5. Only commit/upload freely in some cases, RC bugs for example? > > > > Should different policies apply to DDs and pkg-games members? > > > > Or, one could argue that it will always be a judgement call and > > guidelines won't serve any purpose in most cases. > > > > What do you think? > > Hi, > I think DDs and pkg-games members should be allowed to commit freely. > Upload if the maintainer dosn't object within a week after being > notified. Optional per-repository override are fine, too. So I'm in > favour of making the guidelines quite welcoming. > > Best regards, > Tobias > That sounds like a reasonable policy in my ears too, but I think that more people need to chime in on this... *nudgenudge* I'd be up for making a draft of the guidelines once we've had some kind of concensus. -- Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
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