concept of package "ownership"

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Fri Jul 2 14:13:26 UTC 2010


 On 07/02/2010 07:37 PM, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Ok, this policy was for the other case, a case when the maintainer
> does not respond. I am not saying that it happens a lot, but it
> happened in the past, and the syslog-ng case exposed in the thread is
> another recent case. Maybe a policy is not needed and a case by 
> case handling by escalation to FESCo is enough, though. In my
> days as a Fedora contributor, however, this issue was annoying
> enough that I proposed the policy, maybe things have changed
> now.

A global view of package versions in rawhide vs the latest upstream
similar to http://wiki.debian.org/DEHS would be useful to know how we
stand.  Rakesh Pandit was looking into this earlier.  Not sure of the
status on that now. 

Rahul



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