2015-11-18 1:08 GMT+01:00 Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > tl; dr: I have submitted the following RFE for pkgdb: > https://github.com/fedora-infra/pkgdb2/issues/274 > Please add comments there if you have any. > > I know I'm not the only provenpackager to have applied a bugfix to > someone's package only to be yelled at it for it. Some maintainers are > more prickly about having others touch the packages they maintain for > the community than others, and unfortunately there's currently just no > way to know whether you'll be thanked or flamed for helping out with a > package. > > After some IRC discussion I've come to the following proposal: that > maintainers have some way to easily indicate how open they are to > external contributions. Basically this would take the form of a few > options in pkgdb where maintainers can indicate their willingness to > have provenpackagers carry out a few actions. Please read the github > ticket for details: > https://github.com/fedora-infra/pkgdb2/issues/274 > > This would be purely advisory, with hopefully reasonable defaults. I > believe it has the potential to eliminate quite a bit of friction that > provenpackagers must handle, as well as eliminate the hesitation some of > us feel for fear of being flamed. > > - J< As a provenpackager, I prefer to send an heads up and briefly explain (for non-trivial change) the reason. This lessen the friction a lot. As a comaintainer, I've had issues with non-trivial changes and some buggy updates (e.g. provenpackager pushing latest release though it's known upstream to be broken). Issues that could be avoided with minimal communications, I wish we had an actual reviewing system that creates this communication and lower the threshold to contributing at the same time. Though I prefer review boards like gerrit or ReviewBoard, even a simple Pull Requests based reviewing system as in Pague would be welcome. Regards, H. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
