On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 20:10 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 05 May 2008 21:01:35 -0400 > bpepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Brian Pepple) wrote: > > > > === Deal with reported bugs in a timely manner ==== > > * 'Nuff said. > > "If you find yourself unable to handle the load of bugs from your > package(s), please ask for assistance on the fedora-devel and/or > fedora-test lists. Teaching triagers about how to triage your bugs or > getting help from other maintainers can not only reduce your load, but > improve Fedora. Consider reaching out for some (more) co-maintainers > to assist as well". Added. > > === Maintain stability for users === > > * Package maintainers should limit updates within a single > > Fedora release to those which do not require special user action. Many > > users update automatically, and if their applications stop > > working from no action of their own then they will be upset. > > This goes doubly for services which may break overnight. > > I would add additionally: > > "Maintainers should not push every single upstream update to all > branches. Examine the changes in each upstream release and ask if the > update is worth download and update time for many users. For upstreams > that update very often with many small updates, consider waiting and > updated only when the amount of changes is worth updating. Added. > > === Track dependency issues in a timely manner === > > * In the development tree, and to a small degree in the release > > trees as well, updates to packages may cause other packages to > > have broken dependencies. Maintainers will be alerted when > > this happens, and should work to rebuild their packages with all due > > haste. Broken dependencies may leave end user systems in a > > state where no updates will be applied. In order to keep the > > distribution in a reasonable state, someone will step in and > > rebuild packages that have had dependency issues for some > > time, but package maintainers should not rely on these rebuilds. > > Bodhi should prevent this in released branches now... so might need a > bit of re-wording. Good suggestion. I changed that to refer to Rawhide only, since that should be the only branch affected. Thanks, Kevin! Later, /B -- Brian Pepple <bpepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BrianPepple gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 810CC15E BD5E 6F9E 8688 E668 8F5B CBDE 326A E936 810C C15E
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