The updates firehose

[Rahul Sundaram]

Neil Thompson wrote:

> 
> And very shortly you're going to be asking for a policy to be written which
> defines when the maintainers are going to be allowed to have bowel movements,
> aren't you?

Completely Unrelated.

> 
> The strengths of Fedora are its leading (even bleeding, at times) edge software
> and its maintainers.  I had hoped that the merge would lead to more freedom and
> faster throughput for new software, but it looks as though we're on the verge
> of a coup by anal, hide-bound, corporate control freaks. (<- hyperbole, but it
> worries me)

Who exactly are you calling that?

> Please folks - if you're going to build a community, make sure that you have only
> the governance that is necessary and NO MORE!  Leave the maintainers (who have been
> appointed to look after the packages) to do their jobs.  Address mistakes and issues
> on a case-by-case basis and don't hamstring everyone with a bunch of pettifogging
> rules.

Updates policy has been requested before by community folks too. You 
don't even have to necessarily change your current practises. Just 
document them explicitly.

Rahul