Hi Daniel, On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:55:09AM -0800, Daniel Campbell wrote: > Agreed. For most of my packages, I really don't mind since we're all > working on Gentoo together, but it'd be super helpful if I was simply > notified in the event that a package I maintain has gotten a security > bump, patch, or stabilization. Sure, 'git log' and 'git blame' can > explain a few things, but if I was going to edit a package, I have the > maintainer's e-mail available right there in metadata.xml. To me it's a > courtesy that should be a requirement by default, while devs that don't > care can use whatever means we agree upon to indicate that they don't care.
If you are not the maintainer or a member of the maintaining project, contacting the maintainer of a package before you touch it is already required by default and has been since I can remember [1]. I have noticed that some developers do not follow this; that is a different issue. It would be nice to have a way in metadata for maintainers to show that they are ok with others working on their packages so that if they go unresponsive we don't have to wait 2-4 weeks before we can do anything. William [1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-maintenance/
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