Push packages from diverse maintainers

[Hans de Goede]

Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> 
>>> So how do we *best* coordinate this?
>>
>> https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/bodhi/ticket/79
> 
> Yeah OK, so blocking updates which breaks deps is a good idea. But will 
> this cause a catch 22-situation where I cannot push libmtp because if I 
> do, I break Amarok, and I cannot push Amarok too, because it is 
> maintained by Aurelien and I'm not allowed to push that.
> 
> This leads to a situation where a maintainer of a lib has to co-maintain 
> every package that is dependent on that lib, in order to be able to push 
> updates properly.
> 
> So to make things perfect, maintainers of packages that other packages 
> depend on should have their status escalated so that they can build and 
> push all dependent packages if need be. OR (and this may be easier) have 
> a mechanism to notify som dependency-engineer with access to everything 
> to do builds and pushes for her/him.
> 

Or, do not do soname / ABI breaking updates in a stable release?

Regards,

Hans