Re: Heads up; F22 will require applications to ship appdata to be listed in software center

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:53:11 +0000



    On 01/23/2014 05:41 PM, Rahul Sundaram
      wrote:

    
      Hi

        
            On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:20 PM,
              "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"  wrote:

              
                  On 01/23/2014 05:06 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

                
                By going through those reports you will notice how long
                it took for those patches to be applied as well as see
                all those that have yet to be applied.

              
              Yep but these are not unique to components with an
                inactive upstream.  All such enhancements take time to
                get through.   Any changes in the packages guidelines
                unless they break packages from building take a
                significant amount of time to work through.  I still see
                packages that are just now adopting to using systemd
                macros for instance or guidelines from years back and
                sometimes they are deliberately doing so to maintain
                compatibility with older releases but in many cases, it
                has just not been urgent enough to look into them until
                now.  I have been working on a package  (quassel) where
                upstream is very active but the Fedora package
                maintainer has been AWOL for a long time. 

                
                You have identified a problem but you are misattributing
                it. 

              
    No I'm not in-activity is still in-activity,,

    
    In both these cases it falls on the hands of the packager/maintainer
    ( or none if he no longer is with us ). 

    
    Now 

    
    A)

    
    You cannot help those packages to get more attention. 

    
    B) 

    
    Even if you did our current package maintenance framework does not
    allow for drive by patching/helping

    
    C) 

    
    Even if that was not the case as you correctly pointed out Fedora
    suffers from general resource shortage. 

    
    all leading up to... 

    
    Cutting off inactively maintained packages being the only way we can
    deal with that which in turn will reduce the size of the
    distribution to something we actually can maintain or cover ( which
    probably is around 5k components )

    
    JBG

  
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