Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 01:58:05PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > >From the long discussion list afterwords.. I think there is not enough > > meat on the bones of this to say it can be rejected or accepted. [I am > > speaking as myself a person who needs a cup of coffee] > > > > 1) Do packages get updated to the latest or are stuck with back patches? > It is the maintainer decision. The rule of thumb is that maintainers > should be conservative, but don't hesitate to update if backports are > too complicated. Or, as I say in the proposal, between fedora and > RHEL/Centos/EPEL. You need to describe said user base more precisely, and find out what their real needs are. > > 2) What happens for 'core' packages (glibc, kernel, gcc, X, gnome/kde, > > zilla, etc) when the current maintainers (usually Red Hat people) have > > to work on the current stuff and not the back stuff? Who is taking > > them over? What rules do they work with? > Volunteers have to take glibc, kernel, gcc, since they are in the > mandatory packages list. The amndatory packages list is all the > mandatory and default package in core+base comps groups. > Others are taken by volunteers if they want to. Where do said volunteers come from, if people with the required skill sets aren't available for Fedora right now? > If a mandatory package isn't maintained for 7 days the whole branch is > discontinued. Ouch! So I find out out of the blue that the branch is dead?! [...] > > 4) Do you have a pool of volunteers who are doing this? > No. But there must be at least one volunteer for each of the mandatory > package before the branch is said to be part of the project. Sounds sensible. Make that one maintainer and a comaintainer for each core package? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
