On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:53:23 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > I welcome the non-programmers who volunteer to package software, and > their work is very valuable -- but it really isn't going to turn out > well for Fedora if we prioritise quantity over quality to the extent > that we end up shipping packages which we can't _properly_ maintain. > > The quote I posted earlier in this thread ("this is a bug in the > software, not the packaging") is taken verbatim from bugzilla, and I > find it extremely shocking. We have to do better than this, really. > Either that or go back to having a clear 'second class' repository > again, which I don't think we really want. Agreed. > Perhaps one option would be for non-programmer packagers to team up > with a programmer/sponsor to take on the task of package maintenance? > Where currently a package has one 'owner', there would instead be two > rôles -- a 'packager' and potentially a separate 'hacker'. Those > wanting to package software which they can't fully maintain for > themselves would have to recruit a programmer-type to sign up for the > job with them. I like this idea. And I know we have very capable programmers who already offered to help squash bugs in various source code dialects. Christian _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board