On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:57:39PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > 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 Um, oops. unlike --^^^^ :-) > 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
