On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:56:32 -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Agreed but I just get a general feeling that some package maintainers > don't really want others touching their packages. Some don't like it that another name appears in "their" %changelog. Some even overwrite/revert changes with their next commit, because either they don't pay attention to the commit notification mails or they "force" into git their spec file working-copies and don't care what somebody else may have committed. (no examples available, but it has happened within fedora cvs and git) Pkgdb shows a "provenpackager - group members can commit?" checkbox. For which packages is this box unchecked? In general, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Who_is_allowed_to_modify_which_packages is a good start. If "touching packages" also included "doing version upgrades at random times without taking care of a package in general", it would/could get less funny and [much] more difficult. There are some, who would like permission to mess with the package collection as they see fit and not be responsible for the touched packages otherwise. > I haven't stopped > doing the changes ( I don't commit daily but whenever I can run through > a bunch of mock builds first) but I am going to be confining my changes > to more obvious and clear issues and package maintainers can deal with > the rest however they see fit and that would leave less room for > complaints. Happy to hear that. I'm sure the people who get rid of the desktop vendor prefix in hundreds of packages will receive a honorary mention occasionally. -- Fedora release 19 (Rawhide) - Linux 3.9.0-0.rc0.git15.1.fc19.x86_64 loadavg: 0.87 0.74 0.46 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
