David Woodhouse píše v Pá 02. 07. 2010 v 07:08 +0100: > On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 21:09 +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > > > > I would appreciate if someone else who is NEITHER a co-maintainer NOR > > FESCo member don't version bump my packages, without notifying me. > > > > Petr Pisar seems to mess with my packages. > > > > It's simply disgusting !! > > You haven't provided enough information. What's _wrong_ with helping out > by packaging the latest version (I assume that's what he did?) Did he do > it only for rawhide, or also with updates for F-13 etc.? Was there a > good reason to upgrade? Are there open bugs which are fixed by the old > version? Was there a good reason _not_ to upgrade? > > I see no fundamental reason why a Fedora packager shouldn't update a > Fedora package; without any further information my first inclination is > to think that you're being far too precious. (Completely abstracting from the specifics of this package, about which I don't know anything.) Fedora expects a package maintainer to be the main "go to person", to handle bug reports, update the package for RPM changes, compiler changes, packaging standards and so forth - even if all the maintainer really cares about is that the package works in their particular environment with their particular Fedora version. Many package maintainers don't get anything in return except for the minimal reward of being known as the maintainer of the package. Because the maintainer will be expected to deal with the resulting bug reports, it seems quite reasonable to me that the maintainer should at least be consulted about non-trivial changes to the package. Also, changing a package contrary to the wishes of primary maintainer removes their authority and discretion over the tasks they are expected to do, which is understood to decrease intrinsic motivation. Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
