concept of package "ownership"

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 07:15:54PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> I had forgotten about this but since becoming provenpackager I have
> helped out in simple rebuilds or even version bumps on occasions and
> have gotten positive feedback. 

You mean that you didn't only send a patch but you did commit 
version bumps without prior communication with the maintainer 
or with a maintainer not responding to your offer to do a 
version bump?

>  The written policy is rather rigid but
> people tend to be more flexible about others helping out in effect.   We
> should generally assume goodwill and not try to mandate common sense via
> minute policies. 

I am not that positive. Maybe the fedora project changed since these days,
but there were quite a bit of cases where bugs with fixes were not
considered for a long time.

-- 
Pat