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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:35:35AM -0500, George Sherwood wrote:
> I would like to 2nd what Flavien wrote.  This has happened to me before
> in my sections resulting in spells being broke that I didn't know about.
> Not that a problem in the chat-sections could be as serious as in
> disk :).  I know this has been asked before, but if a section is being
> maintained please send a message to the guru before updating spells.
> 
> There a still many spells to be updated to BUILD_API=2 in the
> unmaintained sections if some one is looking for things to work on.  I
> have been slowly working through some of them.

I agree, and it has actually been said before that maintained sections
should not be touched without getting the assent of the section
maintainer first.
The best process is probably to either catch the maintainer on irc or if
that doesn't work file a bug stating what you want to do and then wait
for the maintainer to either do it himself or tell you to go ahead with
it.
The two exceptions to this i can think of right now are BUILD_API 2
conversion and spell lowercasing, though those should be done in the
unmaintained sections first too.
Now that we have more and more maintained sections again we really need
to make it possible for the section maintainers to get their sections as
stable as possible, and that means going through them for changes, as
they know their sections best.
 
> On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 13:44 +0100, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> > The last changes of udev spell highlight some problems for me...
> > 
> > I really appreciate the help of general gurus, however, I would like to 
> > be 
> > informed of the changes they made in my section. Yes, you read well, disk 
> > section is maintained !!! ;-p
> > I think there are enough bugs in others sections (1 in disk, about 230 in 
> > the 
> > rest of the grimoire), and especially in the unmaintained sections, to 
> > give 
> > enough work for all general gurus ;-p
> 
> > Well I hope I didn't made all general gurus my ennemies, all I want to 
> > have, 
> > is more communication. It is true that I'm not all time on IRC, but you 
> > can 
> > still mail me. Don't forget that when you made changes that cause a bug, 
> > this 
> > is the section maintainer who have to correct your bug. 
> > 
> > I think I'm not a too bad guru, so please give me some truth... I could 
> > have 
> > done the udev update by myself. 
> > If you want to maintain it by yourself, please tell me. (or move it to 
> > another 
> > section, I still don't understand why udev is in disk section, as it is 
> > not 
> > restricted to "disks" :-p )
> > 
> > Thanks in advance, I hope my words will be not misunderstood and that we 
> > can 
> > now work better together. :-)
> 
> 
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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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