Re: Build sheriff proposal ...

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 14:07, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 17:50, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Good idea.
> > 
> > For my modules, anyone is welcome to put in a minimal fix for "does
> > not build" at any time, as long as they send me email and have some
> > confidence that their fix is right. I think GTK has a similar policy
> > that small build fixes are always OK to just commit if maintainers
> > aren't around.
> > 
> > Havoc
> 
> Might I suggest that a similar policy is adopted for the SPEC files in
> CVS for all GNOME modules. If the SPEC don't include some files it
> should anyone with the needed skills are allowed to add them without
> sending a patch to mailing-lists etc. Chris Chabot is doing some great
> work updating the SPEC's to work with GNOME 2.0 now, so it would be a
> shame if they became unworkable again because the maintainer of module X
> didn't use RPMS and due to that didn't bother to keep it up to date with
> changes.

i am pretty sure that in most cases the gnome packaging project is
actually maintains the .spec files, so people should get in touch with
them.

jacob
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