On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 00:23 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 07:49:51AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > > Can you email the issues you're having to > > fedora-extras-steering@xxxxxxxxxx please? Perhaps we can look them over > > and find an amicable way to solve them for everyone involved. > > Looking at te bug reports Alain posted in another mail, there seems to > be 2 issues. One is that he has proposed patches for packaging issues > for years without being heard. The second is, in my opinion, a less > problematic issue of a bug being closed to rapidly. > > The first one is, in my opinion, a contributor killer issue and I have > been reporting it more than once. It is not acceptable to have packagers > not handling rapidly bugs where submitter proposes patches, or volunteer > to take care of the issue. FESCo should really come up with a guideline > or a solution for such issues, which is not a case-by-case decision. Why? Grr! It does not take someone from FESCo to draft such a thing. Anyone, yes ANYONE, can draft something and ask FESCo to ratify it. Now, frankly I'm not sure something outside of the existing AWOL procedure is needed at all. > It is especially frustrating when a contributor has done some work and > still the package maintainer doesn't seems to care at all about it. I agree. Open CVS ACLs and co-maintainers _should_ help lessen the occurrence of this. However, that is still up to the primary maintainer to decide, and we have to take exceptions as they come. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
