On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 07:55:26AM -0800, Darren VanBuren wrote: > These emails are quite discouraging on packaging my software, which > fits into this category of unpopular software. I don't think the > intention is to discourage packagers, especially new packagers. I > would hope not at least. This presents an interesting case for a community team not like our package reviewers. I would hazard a guess that when someone fixes what I tend to call "edge" packages -- and I have a few of these myself -- they tend to have bug reports concerning that fix. So creating a small test plan should be pretty easy. If the new package fixes the observed problem, and the actual code change is pretty much constrained to the fix, then anyone participating in such a team could test the fix. I did this the other day using Till Maas' new karma script, although I didn't have time to hit every package I was consuming from updates-testing. Took me about 10-15 minutes to participate and give about 6-8 packages appropriate karma after testing what they said they fixed. Although we shouldn't have a goal of "include as much software as possible," we also shouldn't discourage new, well-maintained software. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
