On 02/19/2008 10:50 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
Hi,
there is a takeover by a reviewer of a package submitted by myself:
Original package
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250970
Takeover
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346171
The reviewer has been stalling review, setting new issues some
justified, some being simply false with me trying to satisfy the
requirements. The final absurd refusal was against allowing for RHEL
compatibily.
His package request has been approved and even made it into CVS. I'd
like to ask for the board to check this issue and transfer the
owenership back to the original submitter. Note that when the reviewer
made himself the package submitter I had filed into the vacations page
that I was on relocation.
Also note that I'm probably the closest that comes to an upstream -
Upstream is Conexant via Hauppauge with me having designed the
licensing going through approval by Conexant, Hauppauge and Intel (the
latter for their legal department allowing me to base the license on
theirs). It took me almost a year to get the licenses approved, so
they can enter Fedora and now I have to deal with hostile takeovers?
Sigh.
So it looks like there are actually two disputes:
* Packaging dispute over the RHEL compat stuff, which should be raised
with and resolved by FESCO.[1]
* Ownership dispute. Note: This is my personal opinion may not reflect
the board's collective opinion nor the opinion of how i would feel if I
were in your shoes: I'm trying to be fair, not vengeful.
I think that you have some right as the original submitter and with all
your work on the package both in Fedora and upstream to feel estranged
and want to maintain the package. I think it should be considered a
no-brainer.
However, it is also clear that kwizart wants to work on the package. We
want people in Fedora to be able to work on things they care about, and
while the events that led to this mail were unfortunate, the underlying
fact is that both of you care about the package, although for a
different set of reasons. You want to support compat back to various
RHELs while he doesn't.
Typically, we encourage co-maintenance for this sort of thing and I
think it would be great if you could resolve any personal disputes you
may have between you two and work out an agreement for co-maintenance
with the understanding that if there are any further disputes (which I
hope won't be a common occurrence) they should be escalated to FESCO or
the Board as appropriate...
I also realize that it's possible you two just can't get along, and we'd
need to revisit this issue, but I hope it's possible to try and we'll
cross that bridge if we need to. (Are we already at that point?) :-\
One other thing, I'd encourage you to help figure out with the FPC/FESCo
how we can avoid situations like this in the future. E.g. should there
be a bullet point in the package review guidelines to look for prior
review requests? What happens then? Etc...
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