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From: "André Batista" <nandre@riseup.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Ian Eure <ian@retrospec.tv>, Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>,
	Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>,
	Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>,
	guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Request for assistance maintaining LibreWolf
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:37:31 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZsdoVBIYgD0sskqi@andel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878qwpppfc.fsf@gnu.org>

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Hi Ludo, Ian, guixen,

qua 21 ago 2024 às 22:54:31 (1724291671), ludo@gnu.org enviou:
> 
> > Ian Eure <ian@retrospec.tv> writes:
> >
> >>>
> >>> I believe the usual way of doing something like this is via teams (see
> >>> ./etc/teams.scm ).
> >>>
> >>
> >> I’m not sure whether/how well this mechanism works for non-committers.
> >
> > I believe it should.  AFAIK pretty much all it does is to automatically
> > add the team members onto CC list when running `git send-email'.
> 
> Yes, it works whether or not one has commit rights, and I agree that it
> could be helpful here.

Should I send a patch adding myself to the team? What is expected from
team members?

> > At the same time it is not really meant as a general notification
> > system, so usefulness for you depends on whether some committer will
> > merge the commit adding librewolf team (with you in it).
> 
> Ian, what about teaming up with other Firefox derivative maintainers?
> I’m thinking notably of André and Clément who’ve worked on Tor Browser
> on Mullvad Browser, Mark H Weaver who’s been maintaining IceCat, and
> perhaps Jonathan who’s been taking care of IceDove (Cc’d)?
> 
> Of course, each of these package is different but they’re in the same
> area so it probably makes sense to share reviewing efforts here.

I was reticent on this mainly because (i) I have never actually used
LibreWolf and I don't have a clear picture of it besides it being a
"Firefox + Arkenfox - Mozilla Branding" [1](?); (ii) I expect that most
of these security (aka urgent) patches will land on the same day on a
regular basis for all 4 browsers and given Mullvad and TorBrowser
sources will be late in the game, I'll probably not be able to do such
a timely (yet again, urgent) review, which could add to Ian's
frustration, instead of relieving it; and (iii) AFAIUI, LibreWolf moves
at a faster pace, which adds to my concern of not being able to keep up
in the long run.

That being said, given those patches have remained unreviewed for weeks
in a row, I guess I can at least help improve the current situation and
give commiters some more confidence that a given patch will not break
hell loose when commited and so I'm willing to help with these reviews.
However, I cannot promise to maintain it if/when Ian's lead happens to
go missing.

One question in that regard: is there any difference between reviewing
through QA's web interface and sending mail commands to debbugs'
control? Is any of them preferable? I'd rather use the mail interface if
that's enough.

Cheers.

1. No disrespect meant to the project or its users, just my own
current cluelessness exposed. I'll read the docs on it to understand
it better though.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-08-22 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-17 16:44 Request for assistance maintaining LibreWolf Ian Eure
2024-08-17 18:00 ` Sergio Pastor Pérez
2024-08-17 19:43   ` Ian Eure
2024-08-18  8:35   ` Christopher Baines
2024-08-18 16:50     ` Ian Eure
2024-08-19  1:53       ` Suhail Singh
2024-08-19  8:53       ` Christopher Baines
2024-08-19 23:14         ` Ian Eure
2024-09-12  1:01           ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-08-19 17:01     ` Sergio Pastor Pérez
2024-08-18  8:37   ` Attila Lendvai
2024-08-18  9:07     ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2024-08-17 20:36 ` Ian Eure
2024-08-17 23:08 ` Suhail Singh
2024-08-18  4:07   ` Ian Eure
2024-08-18 21:17     ` Tomas Volf
2024-08-21 20:54       ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-08-22 15:00         ` Ian Eure
2024-08-28 20:48           ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-08-28 23:15             ` Ian Eure
2024-08-29  7:30               ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2024-08-29 20:24                 ` [Browser-Team] " André Batista
2024-08-30 20:14                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-08-22 16:37         ` André Batista [this message]
2024-08-28 20:46           ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-08-30 20:18             ` Defining the role of teams Ludovic Courtès
2024-08-28 23:16           ` Request for assistance maintaining LibreWolf Ian Eure
     [not found] <mailman.5970.1723926982.21382.guix-devel@gnu.org>
2024-08-18  0:11 ` Andy Tai
2024-08-18  0:48   ` Ian Eure

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