On 12/08/2017 10:07 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 08:31:44AM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: >> >> >> On 12/07/2017 02:18 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >>> On 2017-12-07 09:31, Steve Dickson wrote: >>>> What do I have to do to stop random people >>>> from making random changes to packages I maintain? >>>> >>>> How do people get this type of permission? >>> >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Provenpackager_policy >>> >>>> Case in point; >>> [snip] >>> >>> These were properly announced: >>> >>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/RJYQNLIWBAVQPGLIGUT77WGY5D4TK334/ >>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/YKPCYY2JJOAQG67X4I6ZNYRHNYDCNQFL/ >>> >>> This is proper use of the provenpackager privileges. >> Which will lead to the instability... IMHO... Allowing people to >> to change technology that they are clueless of is just wrong. > > I think that's exactly the point ;) > We are allowing people who have the knack and inclination to do "boring" > cleanups to do them so that _maintainers_ can actually concentrate on > _technology_. > > From your message one could think that the changes are some massive > reworking, but both commits are completely trivial updates of > dependencies on package names that have been gone for _years_. > > Unless you want to say that the change is somehow wrong, please > don't say that "poeple [...] are clueless", because that's disingenuous. Fair enough... "clueless" was probably not the most appropriate term to use... But I just read this policy. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Provenpackager_policy It is very broad... IHMO.. You open a ticket, get three acks a boom! You know have complete access every Fedora package including the kernel... hmm... steved. > > Zbyszek > >> What is the point of maintainers-ship if any one and everyone can >> make changes? Any and all changes must go through the maintainer >> if that is not the case the way even have them? >> >> steved. >> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
