Stable Release Updates types proposal

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 16:13 +0000, Terry Barnaby wrote:
> > 
> > This isn't really true. Or at least, not a productive perspective for
> > improving Fedora. There are certainly a lot of bugs in the open drivers
> > shipped with Fedora, and there's a lot of work to do to fix them all. I
> > sent my own reply to Terry explaining how we're handling this at
> > present, but just waving the 'it's all NVIDIA's fault' stick at the
> > problem won't make it go away :)
> 
> One little point I noticed recently. I was watching and testing
> a package released by Fedora. I was having some email conversations with
> some of the upstream developers of that package at the time.
> 
> From what I noticed, there did not seem to be much communication between
> the Fedora packagers and the upstream developers. Particularly
> the upstream developers appeared to be unaware that their code had been packaged
> for Fedora/Redhat etc. In fact they were looking at creating
> a binary release and looking at how to test it on various platforms.
> 
> I don't know if this is an isolated case, but if it is common maybe:

Not in the case of graphics, no. In most cases, the 'upstream
developers' and Fedora packagers, as far as X.org goes, are the same
people. Where this isn't the case, they're in very close contact.
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