On 07/03/2010 03:49 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > David Woodhouse wrote: >> In the old days of RHL and beehive, I think we had it about right... >> with the obvious exception that it was Red Hat only, but the attitude to >> packaging was right, IMHO. There _was_ someone who knew most about a >> package and was expected to deal with it most of the time, but it was >> also perfectly reasonable for other people to work on the packages too. >> >> Fedora seems to have regressed a lot in that respect, although it did >> improve after we started approving ProvenPackagers. > > But the official provenpackager policy is way too restrictive on allowed > changes, so I'm often left wondering "Will I get away with doing that > change?" Yep. On such occasions, I usually resort to being "ultra conservative", i.e. to only apply changes when I am sure about them. > and several times, I have to err on the side of caution, wasting > both my and the maintainer's time by filing bugs etc. when I could just fix > the issue. So do I. Ralf -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
