Re: [cvs] dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/scinetcdf-c7.info, 1.13, 1.14

"Daniel Macks" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:29:59 -0700, Alexander Hansen 
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I believe that I'm an active maintainer, and I want the common 
> courtesy of being informed when people touch ANY of my packages 
> BEFORE any commits are made, so that I can check them out for myself. 
>  Everybody should consider themselves informed:  EVERY ONE OF MY 
> PACKAGES IS OFF LIMITS UNLESS I SAY OTHERWISE. 
>
> I don't care how trivial the change is.  Nor do I care if it affects 
> your day job--that's what the local tree is for. 
>
> It's almost never the case that I don't answer email for several 
> days, so I'm astounded by this change having been made without any 
> attempt to contact me about it. 

Note that this is policy. It's not a new policy. The agreement of being 
a maintainer with a commit bit to a common directory where other 
maintainers all have the same permissions to everyone's files is that 
you still have the self-control to not touch other people's stuff 
without talking to them first. 

dan

  --
Daniel Macks
[email protected]



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