On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 03:59:46PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:56:05 -0500 > Konstantin Ryabitsev <icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > (And if the answer is "backport the security fixes to 1.8.1" then I'm > > afraid I don't really have the skills nor have the time to spend on > > such massive effort). > > You can always find a co-maintainer skilled enough to help you in such > rare cases... just saying. > The Fedora Objectives page[1] says: "In general, we prefer to move to a newer version for updates rather than backport fixes". I know this is what we're talking about, but it's not like we lack existing policy on this - the idea that there's no direction to help maintainers do the same things is not correct. Ewan [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel