FC2 initial schedule posted

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Mon Dec 15 19:35:05 UTC 2003


Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm at redhat.com>:
> Automated RPM submission is not really interesting to us.  We want
> people who are directly involved in maintaining Fedora RPMs, and
> there is no particular reason that this has to be the upstream
> developer, to be directly responsible for the packages.  So for
> Fedora Core specifically, I do not see the value of automated RPM
> submission.

I think you're making a bad mistake.  By encouraging the upstream
developers to automate RPM submission, you would substantially increase
the freshness of the updates you get.

Please, at least don't write in submission requirements that make 
scripting more difficult.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>





More information about the devel mailing list