Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 07:04:58PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > >>Robin H. Johnson wrote: >> >>>You aren't the first no, but the solutions to it are limited: >>>- teach developers to use -kb where they should >> >>Wouldn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 07:04:58PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > You aren't the first no, but the solutions to it are limited: > > - teach developers to use -kb where they should > Wouldn't it be -ko for a patch? -kb is actually better than -ko, due to how it's handled

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin H. Johnson wrote: > You aren't the first no, but the solutions to it are limited: > - teach developers to use -kb where they should Wouldn't it be -ko for a patch? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using Gn

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 03:04:48AM +0200, Anders Rune Jensen wrote: > Let me first start by saying that committing straight to stable was > clearly a mistake. I can't help wonder why CVS would change patch files > (it probably doesn't know the difference between ordinary files and > patches) This

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Anders Rune Jensen
On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 14:44 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Since keywording policy seems to be being ignored again... Don't *ever* > commit new ebuild revisions straight to stable, even if you think it's a > trivial fix. There are plenty of things that could go wrong even with > simple patches --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 24 April 2005 05:09 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Of course, there's the occasional notable exception who regularly screws > stuff up and just plain doesn't care. spank me ! :( -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Sunday 24 April 2005 23:35, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >>They're >>supposed to do that for the first month or so (depending upon how long >>it is before it becomes obvious that you're safe). > > I was talking about

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:37:00 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sunday 24 April 2005 23:35, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > They're | > supposed to do that for the first month or so (depending upon how | > long it is before it becomes obvious that you're safe). | | I was t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' PettenÃ
On Sunday 24 April 2005 23:35, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > They're > supposed to do that for the first month or so (depending upon how long > it is before it becomes obvious that you're safe). I was talking about double-checking *every* commit of every developer. That will be an overkill, imho. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:24:08 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I think that doing something like that, surely will increase safety, | but will also drive gentoo out of the world. | | We have already too many packages which needs maintainers, and having | to double-ch

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Sunday 24 April 2005 23:08, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Also if who approves is _not_ the mentor / sane a 4 eyes check is always > a good thing (TM) it's the way kernel develop is going from years now, > right? I think that doing something like that, surely will increase safety, but will also driv

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:59:14 +0200 foser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 21:29 +0100, Paul Waring wrote: | > Why not have a three strike rule - anyone who commits something | > straight to stable 3 times in a given period (say 6 months) has | > their CVS access revoked. | | It's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Paul Waring
On 4/24/05, foser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not California here. You completely ignore the fact that some > people commit more than others and as such are more likely to trip over > such a rule anyway and the people who do commit a lot are usually the > same people you don't want to revoke

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Francesco Riosa
>What I'd *like* to see is all new devs and any dev who has a history of >breaking things committing to a branch rather than the main tree, and >having their commits approved (merged) by their mentor / someone sane. > > Also if who approves is _not_ the mentor / sane a 4 eyes check is always a g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread foser
On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 21:29 +0100, Paul Waring wrote: > Why not have a three strike rule - anyone who commits something > straight to stable 3 times in a given period (say 6 months) has their > CVS access revoked. It's not California here. You completely ignore the fact that some people commit mor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Paul Waring
On 4/24/05, Jan Kundrát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heh, comming from non-gentoo email address :-) I get just as annoyed if someone commits something straight to stable and it breaks something on my system. :) Paul -- Rogue Tory www.roguetory.org.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:29:19 +0100 Paul Waring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 4/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Since keywording policy seems to be being ignored again... Don't | > *ever* commit new ebuild revisions straight to stable, even if you | > think it's a trivial fix

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Jan Kundrát
Paul Waring wrote: > Why not have a three strike rule - anyone who commits something > straight to stable 3 times in a given period (say 6 months) has their > CVS access revoked. Heh, comming from non-gentoo email address :-) -jkt -- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth signature.asc Descr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Paul Waring
On 4/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since keywording policy seems to be being ignored again... Don't *ever* > commit new ebuild revisions straight to stable, even if you think it's a > trivial fix. There are plenty of things that could go wrong even with > simple patches -- for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Don't *ever* commit new ebuild revisions straight to stable, even if you > think it's a > trivial fix. Indeed! I learned that lesson with bug 73072 :) - -- Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ BSD | cron | forensics | shell-

[gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

2005-04-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Since keywording policy seems to be being ignored again... Don't *ever* commit new ebuild revisions straight to stable, even if you think it's a trivial fix. There are plenty of things that could go wrong even with simple patches -- for example, if you accidentally included some CVS Id: lines in yo