From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Listing sub-system maintainers? Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 22:20:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20141003202034.GB11153@debian> References: <87egvbk9wl.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52258) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xa9LJ-0003s8-Rq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:20:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xa9LD-0006w7-Qz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:20:45 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87egvbk9wl.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-15?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: Guix-devel There have not been many replies to your message, so I will quickly give my opinion. The idea looks good to me. On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 02:49:30PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > They have permission to check patches into the > repository without obtaining approval first. > > - The Write After Approval Maintainers. > > These are developers who have write access to the Guix source tree. > They can check in their own changes once a developer with the > appropriate authority has approved the changes; they can also apply > the Obvious Fix Rule (below). > > Maintainers should always post non-trivial patches to guix-devel@gnu.org. > Trivial patches include fixing typos, fixing obvious mistakes, etc. I think we should be less contradictory, and give more freedom to the maintainers. So I would state that maintainers are allowed to commit non-controversial patches (which in fact they already do...). Andreas