Upstream developers mainting there own package in Fedora and nothing else

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon May 5 12:34:10 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 10:27 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> After the sponsor discussion we recently had, I decided I've been neglecting 
> the sponsoring and went and took a look at the FE-NEEDSPONSOR queue.
> 
> One of the reviews this has got me involved in is fpm2:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444830
> 
> This review is special as the upstream developer is submitting the package, and 
> he has stated that for now he has no interest in doing other Fedora work.

Our policy has always been: For a package to be part of Fedora, it must
be maintained as part of Fedora. It's completely irrelevant whether this
person is upstream or whether somebody else volunteers.

I for one consider cases like the one you describe above to be "drive by
submissions", and consider playing nice to them to be counter productive
to Fedora.

Ralf





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