Working update sitting in testing

[Ranjan Maitra]

> > 
> > The person that submitted the build to bohdi should be able to request a
> > push to stable after this much time. Then it will move to stable shortly
> > (around a day).
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.  I posted a comment on the corresponding
> bug report half a week back, but I doubt anyone is paying attention.
> The report was closed as WONTFIX automatically when F18 EOLed.

This is what I find frustrating about the whole thing. Most maintainers
put in a WONTFIX only after it becomes clear that there is no reason to
do so (either the software is going out of business in Fedora or the
software will not be maintained, etc). However, there are some who take
inexplicable decisions. Case in point: look at the bug

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914861

zathura 2.6 was released even before F20 was released but the
maintainer appears not to want to release it on F20 and will keep it
at 2.4 all through F21 perhaps, since rawhide appears to be F22? Why? No
one knows. These policies appear to be completely arbitrary.

Another bug, which made me give up on LXDE (I have gone back to only
using a WM), now has a potential patch submitted: 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820514

but no response for a long time. (I suspect that the maintainer
Christoph Wickert is no longer a LXDE user.)

I understand that all these maintainers are volunteers, but some
consistency would be helpful. This will drive people, especially bug
reporters who are far fewer than the general Fedora population, out
into the shadows (of not reporting bugs).

I have to say however that most of the maintainers are very responsive
and the rationale for their decisions is solid. It is the few
inexplicable ones that can make it frustrating!

Ranjan

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