"Staying close to upstream"

[Kevin Kofler]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> You are calling a lot of things including the kernel and Firefox KDE
> related even though KDE Spin does not even include Firefox by default.
> In other words, you want a organization policy that lets you dictate to
> other maintainers what patches they should merge even if the packages
> are only tangentially related such as Firefox.  This is ultimately a
> power grab and not healthy and will never be acceptable.  Besides,  you
> repeatedly refer to the "KDE SIG" but KDE SIG has made no formal request
> to the Firefox maintainers.    I can't accept that you represent all of
> KDE SIG's viewpoint in this matter.  This appears just your person view
> points.

Uh, AFAIK Jaroslav Řezník has talked to both the OO.o and the Firefox 
maintainers about KDE integration (there are maintainers or comaintainers of 
both in the same RH office), in both cases with little success so far. In 
OO.o's case, some or all of the KDE stuff actually went upstream (I'm not 
sure if it's finally all upstreamed or if there are still patches from go-oo 
needed; I'll also note that we're the only major distro not to use go-oo), 
the maintainers said they'd look into enabling it, nothing happened. In 
Firefox's case, the answer was just "trademarks" and so we never bothered 
making a formal request because we know it wouldn't get anywhere.

        Kevin Kofler