On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 12:01 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: > Then on the other hand I get these pull-requests that > work sooooo well! > > So I just don't understand why for non-massive changes > why is it not required to go through the pull-request > process? There is a pedestrian reason, which is that the pull request system is very *new*. It's only been there a couple of months. So it's not surprising that all existing policies haven't been rewritten around it. But there are also the practical reasons others have given several times but you have just ignored in your multiple replies. Put yourself in the shoes of a provenpackager who needs to make corresponding changes to, say, 50 packages. All those changes need to go through before an important modernization/cleanup to another package can be completed, for instance. Now you file 50 pull requests. And wait. And wait. And wait... How long will it be before you can get the modernization/cleanup finished? You're going to be sitting there waiting for 50 people to respond to pull requests, and it's a racing certainty at least one of them just *won't*. In the mean time you'll be working on other things, and losing track. It just makes it much harder to get important stuff done. Fedora is a *distribution*, and a large part of being a distribution is some level of consistency in the way we provide software to people. It's *important* that we have a mechanism by which we can make a reasonable cut at having multiple packages, maintained by different people, do things the same way - and have the packages changed promptly when those policies change. I wouldn't say this is an open-and-shut case, there are reasonable arguments in favor of using the PR process for changes, sometimes or always. But I agree with other folks that you're not doing yourself any favours by acting as if this policy is clearly insane and you're the only sane person in the room, and as if there had been some sort of major controversy or disaster when there hasn't. Someone fixed up some dependencies in your package which you should've fixed yourself years ago. That's the sum total of what happened. Your git complaints don't seem to make sense to anyone else and you've refused to explain exactly what this special workflow you have is despite more than one person specifically asking you. Important note: I'm a proven packager. I make changes to other packages when I judge that it's appropriate to do so, under the policy. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
