2010-07-02 03:18 keltezéssel, Kevin Kofler írta: > Dave Airlie wrote: > >> So I've noticed maintainers of packages in Fedora seem to have a concept >> of ownership, and I'm wondering if we could remove that word from usage >> about maintainership. >> > +1 > > IMHO any sponsored packager should be free to do changes which benefit the > Fedora Project to any package, no matter who officially maintains the > package. And such changes include things like upgrading the package to the > current upstream release in Rawhide, especially when that release is needed > for other packages. Even a provenpackager can't always make such changes > without getting yelled at. > > I think we need to get rid of the concept of ownership entirely, that'd also > make orphaned or de-facto orphaned packages less of a problem. You see a > problem, you fix it. Who cares whether the package has an active maintainer > or not? > +1 I'd like to get syslog-ng updated to the latest version in Rawhide (I work part time for the upstream developer and I'm also an occasional Fedora user). I contacted the package owner, no response. Created a bugreport to get it updated ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598961 ), and also provided an updated package, which compiles and works fine on Fedora 12, 13 and Rawhide. After waiting for weeks, I started a maintainer time out. It was closed within an hour. I got some comments on bugzilla, but nothing happened ever since. The updated package was never downloaded from my website. What can I do in this situation? Obviously I'm not a proven packager to update the package myself, as I'm not a Fedora developer. I worked a lot to update and test the package, but still I'm stuck. And as you can see, the maintainer timeout procedure does not help either... Bye, CzP -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
