Fedora Insight weekly Meeting

[Drak]

On 21 May 2010 19:51, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 09:36:11AM +0545, Drak wrote:
> >    Off-topic maybe: What is the policy to using vendor fixes that have
> not
> >    yet been released?
> >    Drak
>
> Good question, Drak.  I think it's acceptable for us to include
> patches in a RPM that are backported fixes expected to be in the next
> upstream release.  This happens frequently in the kernel, for example,
> especially where Fedora contributors are providing said patches.  The
> goal is always to reduce those fixes/patches to zero, or as close to
> zero as possible.


What is the procedure for letting you guys know the packaging requirements?
 Is there something we can add to our continuous integration process?  We
could build it automatically...

Drak
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