Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:49:19PM -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > > > > 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. > What user base are you talking about? I am talking about maintainers > willing to do some work. Who will want to use (Fedora + CentOS) / 2? What will they want to use it for? That is the set of people where you might recruit maintainers. > > Where do said volunteers come from, if people with the required skill sets > > aren't available for Fedora right now? > > What are you basing this on? In the course of my proposal finding if > there was enough volunteers (we cannot judge their skills, though) was > an objective. Of course maintainers can lie, but I trust them not to. OK, I misunderstood. > > > 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?! > > Yes. If there is not enough people to do the work anymore. If I can't reasonably trust the continuity of the branch, it makes it a lot less useless to me. -- 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
