"Staying close to upstream"

[Chris Tyler]

On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 16:51 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> * This policy of sticking religiously to upstream means we are not shipping 
> KDE integration for Firefox, despite patches from openSUSE existing. This 
> makes Firefox suck under KDE. Our Firefox maintainers refuse to do anything 
> about it.

Kevin, it seems to me that open source is about working in community,
and you want to short-circuit that again.

You could work in community by:
- respecting our Firefox maintainers' policies, and
- respecting upstream by shepherding these patches through their review
process

If you (or whoever is interested) can't get those patches through the
upstream review process for technical reasons, then perhaps they're ugly
patches. If you can't get them through because of lack of
time/energy/motivation, then the future maintenance of those patches is
in question. Either way, it strengthens our Firefox maintainers'
position that those patches shouldn't be accepted.

It's easy to complain that people aren't bending the rules to your
liking, and harder to actually work with them and get things done in a
quality, sustainable way.

-Chris