On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 20:17 +0100, Iain Arnell wrote: > 2008/12/10 Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > Treat rawhide as your 'new code' land, leave the release trees as your > > 'testing and working' code. That is don't be so goddamn eager to push > > new packages and new upstream releases to every freaking branch in > > existence. > > > > Of course, when I make suggestions like these, I become extremely > > unpopular. > > > > doubleplusgood > > As a recently sponsored contributor, I would suggest changing the > documented procedures. I was more than happy to shove new packages > into rawhide only, but when confronted with > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join and > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure > felt obliged to request branches for F-9 and F-10 too (and pressure > during review to support EPEL too only adds to the problem). > > Requests for new packages should only be permitted in rawhide by > default (and consequently, EPEL+1 whenever and whatever that may be). > Some form of additional review/sponsorship/bribery should be a > prerequisite for branches in already-released version. > > -- > Iain. Interesting idea! Would you be willing to bring this topic to the next FESCo meeting? FESCo is the body responsible for such decisions. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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