On 5/18/07, Dimi Paun <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't think we should prefer the -gnome version just because it has the "gnome" in the name...
I was suggesting that perhaps the upstream developers were more willing to incorporate patches, since that is exactly the issue the current package maintainer cited as why he's lost interest in the package. And to be quite honest, that should be a big ass red flag for any potential new maintainer. If upstream isn't cooperating and integrating patchsets adequately from Fedora maintainers, I have to really question whether or not it makes sense to include that piece of software into fedora at all if there are multiple alternatives already in that application space. Featuresets are at best orthogonal to maintainability, and am not arguing for for or against any application here on the basis of featureset. But I will argue, passionately, to drop applications from the repository which are unnecessarily difficult to work when driving patchsets upstream. Caillon's comments suggest to me that maybe in this case it is....and if so we need to take a really hard look at whether or not xchat as a project is worth including compared to the 14 million other irc enabled alternatives in the tree. -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
