Re: guile22 -> gnutls -> lots of virt packages

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



* Daniel P. Berrangé:

> What's notable to me is that, generally speaking, maintainers use
> their own discretion as to which optional features they enable
> or disable with a package built in Fedora. I'd expect that in most
> cases similar to this a maintainer will just disable the feature,
> do a koji build, and never tell anyone, nor ask for permission.
> Package maintainers do this all the time, even dropping builds
> for entire architectures without telling anyone beforehand even
> though there are users / dependant packages.
>
> In this case the maintainers are effectively being penalized for
> trying to proactively alert users to a change, that probably
> doesn't impact many/any users in the first place.
>
> This serves to discourage other maintainers from even making a
> feature change page in future, lest they be rejected. The safer
> course of action is to just silently disable the feature, and
> then ask for forgiveness later in the unlikely event anyone
> complains.

Yes, this thought has crossed my mind as well.

There are definitely much more impactful changes we make upstream, and
at most, Fesco gets to rubber-stamp them.  So the balance seems rather
off here.

Thanks,
Florian
_______________________________________________
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
Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure




[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Users]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]

  Powered by Linux