Re: package maintainers please choose a package group

[Carlo De Falco]

> On 14 Mar 2017, at 13:09, Olaf Till <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 09:29:47AM +0000, Carlo De Falco wrote:
>> If the package has a repository on bitbucket or github one could use
>> a pull request, which sounds better to me. Does sourceforge have
>> this feature?
> 
> If there is a trivial fix to 30 packages, it would be too much hassle
> for me to click around at sourceforge for each package and keep track
> of the responses. And what is the effective difference? As in a pull
> request, you don't need to use the pushed changeset. You can leave it
> as a dangling branch.
> 
> For the usual case, i.e. the changes are discussed before pushing,
> we'd e-mail the changeset to the maintainer, or post it to the patch
> tracker for discussion.
> 
> What I actually meant with my question was if you have an alternative
> suggestion for the wording in the groups description.
> 
> Olaf

As Philip noted, a pull request would actually create less effort, not more.
Anyway, I would never want to create you any hassle, so please mark all my 
packages as external so you don't have to worry about them.

c.