On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Moreover, the maintainers may have a few changes stashed for the next > bump to avoid people rebuilding the package unnecessarily.
++ I know I sometimes keep bugs open for precisely this opportunity. Sometimes I even have updated ebuilds/patches staged and just waiting for the next bump. If I know a bump is coming soon I'm not going to rev the ebuild. It is one thing if you ping the maintainer and nobody hears from them for a week. It is another to do a revbump without any notice at all. If a package is sluggish and you want to help it along, then add yourself as a maintainer, ideally after a brief chat with the current maintainer(s). That fixes the problem for the long-term. Rich
