Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com>
> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 3:57:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...
> 
> On 11/22/2011 01:48 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > The problem here is that in my eyes there are no inactive
> > contributors and
> > there shouldn't be anything preventing people from contributing
> > (even if it's one update per year).
> > While I agree that projects that FTBFS, can't be installed and etc.
> > should be purged every release, everything
> > else should be out of question because the fact that someone
> > considers something legacy
> > doesn't mean that it's not usable for others. And to make it clear
> > handling bugs is not a measure at all about activity.
> > So if you come with a technical list of things that make sure that
> > a package is unusable for 100%(e.g. can't be installed because of
> > missing dependency) of the users
> >   it's not a question that it should be removed, but if there is
> >   someone that signed as a maintainer and
> > there is even a slight possibility that someone can use nothing
> > more can be required from the maintainer.
> > Note the usage of required, all kind of suggestions can be made and
> > people can do additional work but everyone should do as much as he
> > can/want/have fun to do.
> >
> 
> If more than you and Kevin Kofler are working under this assumption
> than
> the whole scenario begs the question why we even bother with QA and
> Security et all...

Sorry but I don't see the relation. Everything is based on volunteers.
The fact that I package something doesn't mean that QAs are required to test it. 
Certain people do it and I'm really thankful to them. But I'm not going and saying 
QAs should test everyone of my packages for every Fedora release. To generalize - 
the fact that I decided to spend my time working on something should not require someone 
else to do work he doesn't want to do or doesn't consider important.
It should be the same from the other POV - the fact that someone else decided to spend his time on
something should not put any requirement on me unless I consider it important and want to do it.

Alex

> 
> JBG
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