On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 13:40 -0400, 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. Worth a try. +1 ~spot -- 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
