On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:11:11 -0700, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 01:01 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: >> The question is not *if* Fedora Unity would take on that burden, the >> question is whether upstream will let us. > > Upstream accepts reasonable patches. It happens all the time. Of > course, what also happens all the time is multiple attempts to get the > patches right and a lot of back and forth between the patch submitter > and upstream, until consensus on the patch is reached. This also > happens within the people with commit access. It's just like any other > upstream. > Dear Jesse, you yourself do not accept patches beyond what you then, at that moment, think are applicable use-cases of Fedora Project Release Engineering only to work something up yourself two weeks later. We've also seen upstream reject very reasonable patches -that were in the upstream repo already, authored by @redhat.com of course- be cherry-picked to another branch for whatever reason I've offered to help with (some QA concerns for one). -Jeroen -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
