On 5/10/11 1:41 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:07:22PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: >> X being broken in rawhide was in who knows how many peoples' ways, and >> even though it's provenpackager+ and even though all it would have taken >> was a mass driver rebuild, nobody even tried. Where _are_ you people? >> Why do I bother to open the ACLs on my packages if nobody's going to >> take advantage of it? > > Its a hard problem in human psychology (see diffusion of > responsibility/the bystander effect). It'd be nice if there were some > place we could list all of these tasks and allow people to grab them, > regardless of what they maintain (sounds a bit like bugzilla really) to > at least deter the sense of "what if I do all this work and someone else > fixes it before I commit?" I can see that. My approach tends to be along the lines of: - check bugzilla for anything that looks relevant - take a quick read of the spec or source to see if I can grok it - check with the maintainer, if around and it's not quite trivial - jfdi And if I get beat to the punch, oh well, at least I learned something new about how something else is put together, and therefore I'll be faster next time. - ajax -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
