Merging pull requests before 72 hours

Christopher Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Thu Oct 18 20:38:26 UTC 2018



> On 18 Oct 2018, at 9:25 pm, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2018-10-18, at 1:18 PM, Christopher Jones wrote:
>> 
>> Beyond the above, not really. If it is indeed agreed that some package version updates are allowed under the ‘minor’ tag, then I think the best you can do is just state that, and acknowledge that the determination of what is or is not a minor package revision cannot be quantified in generality, so is up to the member to decide making the changes, and that disagreements are inevitable.
>> 
>> Or, we decide no package version updates are allowed.
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>> Chris
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> 
> Has MacPorts considered removing the whole "maintainer" idea (with the possible exception of a very few key ports that are presently not openmaintainer)?
> 
> It seems to cause a fair bit of frustration, delay, and confusion and I'm not certain it offers a whole lot of benefit.
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> Homebrew has no such concept.

I am not at all familiar with Homebrew. How do they work, does everything go via a PR with them ?

Chris

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> Ken

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