Maintainer Responsibility Policy

[Dmitry Butskoy]

Brian Pepple wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:10 +0200, Xavier Lamien wrote:
>   
>>              * Packages should be pushed to the Rawhide branch first.
>>         If it
>>                builds and works fine for a few days, then it can be
>>         pushed to
>>                F(current). If there is a good reason to push it to
>>                F(current-1), it should be done after a few days of
>>         being in
>>                F(current).
>>
>> I think you should also mention the act of "pushing to testing" repo
>> for each current fedora release.
>>     
>
> Yeah, that's not a bad idea. I believe when that section was written,
> Bodhi wasn't even around (which tells you how long this proposal has
> been around).  I'll add a note.
>   

A restriction of "few days" might complicate the maintainer work. It is 
much more easy to compile for all the branches at one time, rather than 
to plan it for 3 different days. IMO it would be better if such a 
delaying will be performed automatically at "updates-testing-->updates" 
stage...


~buc
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