On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 13:38 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 03:24:23 -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote: > > It seems unreasonable to me > > to expect the user to sign up for 20 different bugzillas > > where you will be told to download the cvs version and retest. > > It seems unreasonable to expect volunteer package developers in a > community packaging project to forward every issue upstream, in > particular if it's an RFE or issue where a packager would need to > reimplement big parts or where upstream would likely want to > communicate with the _user_ and not a packager. That's the essential difference between an "rpm-packager" and a "rpm- maintainer". Fedora.US does not distinguish between both of them, nor can anyone expect Fedora.US volunteer "packagers" to act as "rpm-maintainers", closing following a package's development. In an ideal world, Fedora.US rsp. FE should be collaborative efforts, were "super-maintainers" would fill gaps, and several "packagers"/"maintainers" cooperate to get bugs fixed/PRs forwarded etc. But such is theory, practice is different :( Ralf
