Adam Miller (maxamillion(a)fedoraproject.org) said:
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Bill Nottingham
<notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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> Take a random downstream app. (Firefox is an example, but there are many
> others.) Right now, it only needs to track a single version of python,
> or a single auth framework, even if it may be used on any desktop or any
> spin. The implication is that in some sort of future with SIG-specific
> conflicting frameworks, this downstream app maintainer now must be familiar
> with, and handle *all* of the frameworks, even though they're not
> specifcally a part of any SIG. That's sort of a rotten thing to do to
> Joe Random Maintainer.
>
> You could say that the SIG needs to then supply people to handle every
> potential downstream app, but that's also not nice, and is going to lead
> to fun coordination with updates.
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I don't think that's an issue either, I'm not proposing we change
anything such that it could cause problems.
Toshio was, and that's what I'm responding to.
Bill