FC4 state of affairs and FC5

[Mark G. Adams]

(apologies for lack of message threading - I just subscribed to be able
to chip into the conversation)

> > >How can the yet-to-be founded FC foundation help external
> > >contributers (Such as Mr. Adams) get their fixes into the system
> > >faster?
> > There is no need to way for a foundation for such things. Users or 
> > developers can report such issues in bugzilla. Precise and helpful 
> > information will probably result in a quicker fix
> Patches are especially appreciated, even if they are incorrect in
> some way. You don't have to be some kind of committer to be a developer.

In this particular case, I did the analysis and had patches posted by
June 27th since nothing seemed to be happening and this bug was a
blocker for me:
     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274032

This is referenced by the following bug in the RedHat bugzilla the same
day:
     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160278

Upon request, I put together RPMs (src, i386 and x86_64) a couple of
weeks later (July 18th) since many others have been running into this
bug and are waiting for a resolution.

The issue in this particular case isn't a lack of analysis or a lack of
patches, or even a lack of pulling them together to create new SRPMs
which could be checked, tested and released. The issue is: why has it
been almost 2.5 months since analysis & patches have been made available
but no updated official packages have been made?

(to be fair, the recently updated evolution and evolution-data-server
packages do include the required patches; however, they're insufficient
to solve this bug without updated gnome-pilot and pilot-link packages)

//Mark