Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Tue Sep 24 11:45:48 UTC 2013
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:29:52 +0000, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> On 09/24/2013 11:22 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > _Why_ are they "in no communication with upstream"?
>
> ?
>
> Because there is no requirement for them doing so when they become
> maintainers for a given package
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_responsibilities#Work_with_upstream
> nor is it being ensured if package is
> orphaned that the maintainer that takes it over is in any communication
> with upstream.
Same as above.
> The rest is basically you telling us that you want ship that package
> maintainership responsibility over to the QA community (
> triagers/testers )
There is no such rough split between package (co-)maintainers and
"the QA community". I don't even know how you define "the QA community".
> if that is the case is it not better that our
> triager/tester teams deal directly with upstream with the people that
> know and can fix their code.
Can't comment on that before clearing up the matters above.
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