concept of package "ownership"

Thomas Janssen thomasj at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jul 3 06:40:14 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Thomas Janssen wrote:
>> You have to accept the maintainers decision to not update it yet? What
>> do you think will happen if everyone builds the wishes he has and
>> breaks a lot of stuff with it? Anarchy? We have processes for that in
>> Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MikeKnox/AWOL_Maintainers
>
> It is part of the Fedora Objectives:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives
> to "be on the leading edge of free and open source technology". Given that,
> it is completely unacceptable to not upgrade software to the current release
> in Rawhide (within a reasonable timeframe, of course we're all not available
> 24/7) unless there's a really good reason to (in which case that reason
> ought to be given in the bug report asking for the upgrade!), especially
> when upstream is asking for their software to be upgraded.

snip..

> We should really be more aggressive about allowing to upgrade other people's
> packages in Rawhide if the maintainers don't do it within a reasonable
> timeframe and don't document any good reason not to do the upgrade.

I'm sorry, i can't agree with you here. Being more aggressive, putting
pressure on whatever just to have the latest versions of all the
software around in rawhide, sounds to me like we would go and break
rawhide a lot.
I thought rawhide should be more useful and less broken if i recall
the latest threads right. Anyways, exactly that's why i do *not* want
anybody can do anything with any package. That's just insane, sorry.

-- 
LG Thomas

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