On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 20:18 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Peter Jones wrote: > > We were talking about this on #fedora-meeting, and I was asked to write > > up my answer to the question of how to handle violations of the > > packaging guidelines. > > > > It seems to me that the fundamental question is: what do I do when I > > find a packaging problem? > > > > The answer should be: > > > > 1) Contact the maintainer about it. Start by filing a bug, work from > > there. Be reasonable. > > 2) if the maintainer doesn't respond, or won't fix it and can't satisfy > > you with any good reasons why not, then send a note to FESCO. > > Conversely, if you're a maintainer and somebody won't listen to reason > > about when there is a good reason not to change something, contact FESCO. > > 3) when FESCO is notified of a problem, they appoint somebody who they > > trust to do the right thing to arbitrate the dispute. The arbitrator > > has the right to decide right and wrong here. > > 4) do what the arbitrator says. > > 5) if a maintainer still doesn't fix a package, the arbitrator lets > > FESCO know that we need to start the orphan package process. > > > > In general this sounds reasonable, I especially like how this procedure > normally shouldn't come into play, but only becomes active under exceptional > circumstances. > > However the FESco apoints an arbitrator part wories me, the maintainer should > have a say in this too. There are some people in this community who > (unfortunately) mix about as well as fire and water. 1) the arbitrator does not _have_ to be _on_ FESCo 2) I think FESCo would take personal conflicts into account and try to reasonably appoint a neutral arbitrator. josh -- 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
