On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 23:38 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > 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. OK. I thought that the process still involved a bugzilla entry even though it could be effectively self-approved by > > > 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. True. In this case I probably ahd a mistaken idea of who was packaging it, I forgot to check the old RPM and sort of remembered Peter Linell dealing with it earlier. I was under the impression that he was on the Inkscape list where the packaging has been bandied about a bit, so I didn't realize that there could be a package in the pipeline. Now (and this is of course directed more generally to anyone in the know), since there apparently is a Fedora package of Inkscape 0.40, is there anywhere I and other interested parties can get hold of the SRPM? A public dump of the SRPMs somewhere would be fantastic. > 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. ;) Boy, I didn't really mean to sound like I didn't want to talk to anyone. Sorry about that. It seems to me that an easy way to figure out who's working on what sounds useful to me - . Actually, it just struck me that perhaps something like Debian's ITP system (as far as I can tell it pretty much means that when you're planning to package something you send an e-mail to a mailing list) might be a good idea for Fedora Extras? No hard feelings I hope, Per
