(lack of) maintainership of epiphany?

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Mon Jul 19 10:12:05 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 16:24 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 13:59 +0100, pbrobinson at gmail.com wrote:
> > I wonder about the maintainer ship of epiphany. The ownership of it is
> > gecko-maint but in none of the current versions of fedora is epiphany
> > gecko based and of the 18 other maintainers not a single person is on
> > the bugzilla watch ACL. There's a bug that was introduced at some
> > point in the F-13 time frame where it crashes on all the machines I
> > attempt to use it on when it first tries to load a page, there's quite
> > a few dupes. I'm really surprised that no one has picked this up.
> 
> I thought I had, but it may have been something I filed under 'poke
> someone about later when I'm not so busy'...
> 
> To me it would seem to make sense for the desktop team to own it, since
> it's a part of GNOME.

I'd probably have fixed it if I saw it. Epiphany, like most of the
programs in the core GNOME desktop is something that the RH desktop team
takes care of.

Point us to an upstream patch, and we'll get it in.

Cheers



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