On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:32:36 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > The locked down owners.list makes it impossible to fix typos in it. > > Is this *really* a problem? Considering I fixed a typo that was there > for over 30 days with it open, not sure that it's the biggest concern. > Obviously, 'don't break it' is the answer; the best solution is to > get the package db up and running. Some of us [including me] have fixed tons of typos which broke available parsers. Now that it's locked, "don't break it" sounds like a nice rule of thumb, but considering how often other locked things have been damaged nevertheless (e.g. CVSROOT/modules) and required a fix, I prefer it when more people can keep things running with a lower turn-around time rather than only a very few. > > Resurrecting dead packages has become more > > difficult, too, especially for new contributors. Too many steps and > > points of failure that can easily become an unpleasant experience for the > > new contributors. > > What's the failure point here now? Packages marked as "dead.package" lack the "Makefile", which breaks cvs-import.sh. There is a patch by me (posted to fesco in June last year) which I've resent a few days ago, because it has not been applied so far. > As for the import process, we can change how that works - instead > of CVSSyncNeeded, for example, we could just, after APPROVED, assign > the review bug to the CVS admins to do the magic, at which point they > assign it back to the owner to do the initial import/build. Is this > a better interface for users? Urks. Even more reassignments inside bugzilla? That is error-prone. The Wiki is also a very poor solution for such requests, because in it you cannot communicate with the requester. Why is it that the ticketing system is not used for such requests? -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
