Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing toe stepping

2016-11-30 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 21:49:16 + Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 05:36:03PM -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday, November 3, 2016 9:14:56 AM EDT William Hubbs wrote: > I have posted about this subject before, and I'll go and dust off the > proposal with the last

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing toe stepping

2016-11-15 Thread Austin English
On 11/03/2016 04:49 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 05:36:03PM -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: >> On Thursday, November 3, 2016 9:14:56 AM EDT William Hubbs wrote: > I have posted about this subject before, and I'll go and dust off the > proposal with the last changes add

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing toe stepping

2016-11-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 5:36 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Thursday, November 3, 2016 9:14:56 AM EDT William Hubbs wrote: >> >> I am also in favor of the metadata approach. > > Also it may start inching things towards restricting areas of the tree to said > members of teams etc. Which star

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing toe stepping

2016-11-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 05:36:03PM -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Thursday, November 3, 2016 9:14:56 AM EDT William Hubbs wrote: I have posted about this subject before, and I'll go and dust off the proposal with the last changes added, when I have time soon hopefully. > > I am also in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing toe stepping

2016-11-03 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Thursday, November 3, 2016 9:14:56 AM EDT William Hubbs wrote: > > I am also in favor of the metadata approach. The only downfall is you end up with lots of package/developer specific policies which may become complex and a nuisance. It is likely better to have more of a global policy. Also

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing toe stepping

2016-11-03 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 09:54:39AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > > > > > Although metadata.xml is one way to do this, since it is more of a social > > thing than a technical one I think it might be better to wikify it instead > > -- each

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing toe stepping

2016-11-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > > Although metadata.xml is one way to do this, since it is more of a social > thing than a technical one I think it might be better to wikify it instead -- > each dev can list their "please fix my package" preferences in a per package

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing toe stepping

2016-11-03 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
> On Nov 3, 2016, at 8:21 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Nick Vinson wrote: >> Just doing that one little thing would have prevented or shutdown the >> arguments I have seen. > > Yes, obviously of course. > > But sometimes it's just easier and quicker to me

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing toe stepping

2016-11-03 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Nick Vinson wrote: > Just doing that one little thing would have prevented or shutdown the > arguments I have seen. Yes, obviously of course. But sometimes it's just easier and quicker to meddle in somebody else's ebuild to improve a particular situation. The ques

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing toe stepping

2016-11-03 Thread Nick Vinson
On 11/03/2016 03:16 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Hey guys, > > Every other day on IRC, I see people arguing about touching each > others packages, despite our policies against it. (Sometimes it's even > me who's doing the touching!) My instinctive reaction is always, > "can't everybody calm dow