On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 22:22 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: > On Thursday 08 February 2007 18:07, Brian Pepple wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 09:42 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > > > > > Incompatible package upgrade policy. A good start that probably wouldn't > > > stir up too heated discussions right from the start would be defining how > > > these cases must be communicated. Recent example: > > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2007-February/msg00069. > > >html > > > > I've been working on the Maintainer Responsibility policy for a bit, and > > there is a section about notifying others about changes that may affect > > their packages. Is this sufficient, or do you think we should address > > is somewhere else? > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Schedule/MaintainerResponsibilityPolicy > > I think that's a good start, but it lacks two key bits: > > 1) Where to send the announcement. There is a note about that being dependent > on mailing list reorganization, but IMNSHO it shouldn't wait for that - just > specify a list where to send them for now. This list would be a natural > candidate, but AFAIK non-Fedora-maintainers can't post here which is a > drawback (think non-critical update and 3rd party repos not being able to > update dependent packages in the planned timeframe due to whatever reason and > wanting to discuss that in public). I tend to think that this is acceptable > for an interim solution before the ML reorganization is finished. I agree for now fedora-maintainers should work, and once the mailing list is reorganized we can always update it. > 2) When to send the announcement. I think something like one week would be a > good default; if later, do it as early as possible. And another last heads > up note on the day the update is actually going to be built. Those are good suggestions, and I'll update the Maintainer responsibility policy accordingly. Thanks, /B -- Brian Pepple <bpepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 810CC15E BD5E 6F9E 8688 E668 8F5B CBDE 326A E936 810C C15E
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