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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26.06.2014 22:47, Jeff Backus wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 12:42 PM,
Kevin Fenzi <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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I'm not sure the entire group of provenpackagers would
like to be<br>
notified of such trivial patches waiting. Is there a group
of<br>
provenpackagers who would be willing to query for and
apply these?<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Maybe a simple way to allow
non-provenpackagers to highlight these "trivial bug" patches
would be via a perma-bug a-la FE-NEEDSPONSOR? That way there
is a centralized place inclined provenpackages can check which
doesn't require following a mailing list and is simple enough
even us n00bs can figure it out. :) <br>
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I presume the implementation cost is miniscule, so might at
least be worth an experiment.<br>
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So the thing that should be avoided IMO is not defining well enough
how the procedure should work, to avoid getting swamped with patches
which require additional work to apply. The requirement to fill out
post a "New Package Request" style form to the bug should allow most
of the work to be scripted, and ideally the proven packager would
just need to look at the patch, and if happy, fire the script.<br>
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So maybe such a policy could look something like this [1].
Contrarily to what I wrote initially, I think it might actually make
sense to allow also non-packagers to file such requests, and it
would provide another way of showing off experience which will
eventually lead to one getting sponsored.<br>
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Sandro<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Smani/Trivial_Patch_Policy_%28draft%29">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Smani/Trivial_Patch_Policy_%28draft%29</a><br>
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