On Tuesday, 15 May 2007 at 21:08, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 00:23 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > >> That's all well and good for this specific instance but I am talking > > >> more about a general policy. How are you going to handle instances where > > >> maintainers refuse to cooperate? Step in and workaround them or consider > > >> the packages orphaned and pull them off? > > > > > > I have no energy to discuss some theoretical policy for a situation that > > > should hopefully not occur more than a few times. I'm not saying you're > > > wrong to address that, however. If you would like to have a discussion > > > on that, please start a new thread. It's not a discussion or policy > > > that will be finalized before F7 releases. > > > > I guess that depends on things like whether Ralf wants to follow the > > freeze process or not. > > No, it doesn't. Making a general policy to solve the current situation > will not be accomplished through the proper channels before Thursday, > which is when Deep Freeze occurs. Creating such a general policy > _cannot_ be rushed. It needs to be drafted, posted to -maintainers, > solicited for feedback, revised, and sent to FESCo. I think new packages shouldn't need additional approval beyond the usual review. > For this current situation, Ralf has already stated that he feels it is > rel-eng's responsibility to fix the upgrade paths for his packages. At > best, Ralf will submit a request himself. In the middle, he'll be > agreeable to another maintainer doing it on his behalf. At worst, > someone from rel-eng can do it with a bit of proper research. I am > prepared to do that as it seems to be the only way to solve this at the > moment. I have to admit I kind of liked the "rolling release" development model of Extras, though, personally, I tried to avoid major version bumps in anything but devel branch. I understand that the current change is part of the price to pay for the merge. Something along the lines of $ koji request-tag f7-final packagename <launches an editor so that I can write why I want this tagged> <sends mail to rel-eng or whatever else is necessary> would've been nice, though. Regards, R. -- Fedora Extras contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- 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
