On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:15:04 -0800, Per Bjornsson wrote: [Inkscape 0.40] > Yes, but shouldn't there at least be a bugzilla entry in the fedora.us > bugzilla? No. Using bugzilla for package submissions and package updates has been considered extra burden for package maintainers. Hence for several months, trusted developers can update/upgrade their packagers without needing to wait for QA in bugzilla. With fedora.us' infrastructure they would open a ticket as a build request for a src.rpm. But since FC3 builds are not done at fedora.us, the Inkscape packager didn't open such a ticket. > How else is anyone supposed to know what is in the pipeline? > Knowing that is quite essential for avoiding duplicate work. Well, the current situation is exceptional. With packages being maintained in CVS, you would use different means of monitoring package development. In either case, though, you would never know what's _planned_ until you talked to the packager and participated in the planning actively. You would only see actual changes when they are applied and before something would be built. And currently at fedora.us, all new packages are still tracked in bugzilla. So, there is no duplicate work unless you worked on somebody else's packages while he is preparing updates himself. In that case, you can't really avoid any human-to-human communication. -- Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 loadavg: 1.84 2.27 2.21
