On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 8:48 AM Nicolas Mailhot via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Le 2019-12-02 08:17, Igor Gnatenko a écrit : > > > I simply can't. If somebody gets a package into repo just because he > > wants to build foo, it is probably not very reasonable to ask them to > > "properly" maintain it. > > It is very reasonable to expect anyone building in Fedora, reusing the > work of countless other Fedora contributors, to produce things in a > form others can build and contribute upon. Yes, it is reasonable to reuse the work. But it is not reasonable to expect the person who added something into Fedora is willing to fix all bugs and properly maintain it. The whole point I'm trying to make is that all packages are "community supported", however some of them are more supported and some of them can be / are supported less. > That’s free software 101. > > Building communities takes time and energy and has no immediate benefit. > But, long-term, it's the most efficient way to do things (the “free > software development model” Red Hat suits love to congratulate > themselves > on; it’s a development model, not just a bunch of licenses and > deployment > formats). I am not sure why you mention RH here. > Promoting Kleenex packaging, is ultimately self-defeating for Fedora. It > does not create the community synergy, that makes working within a > distribution worthwhile. > > The only people it makes happy are the devs that loathed any community > or > distribution engagement in the first place. > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas Mailhot > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
