On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 22:59 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:46:59PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > > Obligating anyone to do anything with regard to how they choose to set > > up what is essentially a new fork of a dead codebase is > > absolutely..wrong. > > > > If you want to always require that a codebase in the Fedora repository > > has an identifiable upstream source location that's reasonable. But > > Indeed. That's the point. And then I don't want to force people, but > push a model where we collaborate with other distros when reviving dead > upstream. I really don't want to mandate something, but help those > facing such case with documentation and procedure to lower information > barrier and help coordinating with other distros in a case I think it > makes sense. Then how about a recommendation for abandoned upstreams to contact the maintainers of this package in other distros. A SHOULD, not a MUST. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list