On 03/26/2010 09:43 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: >> This isn't really true. Or at least, not a productive perspective for >> improving Fedora. There are certainly a lot of bugs in the open drivers >> shipped with Fedora, and there's a lot of work to do to fix them all. I >> sent my own reply to Terry explaining how we're handling this at >> present, but just waving the 'it's all NVIDIA's fault' stick at the >> problem won't make it go away :) >> > One little point I noticed recently. I was watching and testing > a package released by Fedora. I was having some email conversations with > some of the upstream developers of that package at the time. > > >From what I noticed, there did not seem to be much communication between > the Fedora packagers and the upstream developers. > That is unlikely to be the general case. You seem to be extrapolating from a single instance. Fedora on the whole has a policy to work closely with upstream. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers#Inform_Upstream I sometimes forget as well and not surprised there would be instances where upstream is not informed. Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
