On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You know, I'm somewhat disappointed in the uneven treatment of packagers here. > A couple of days ago, I wanted to break the freeze and push an update to gnomeradio > that would make the application fully usable again (as it is now, it crashes > every time you try to name a radio station), but I was told (by Jesse himself, > and some other nice folks) to wait until after F-10 is released, because it > wasn't "critical enough". And now I'm reading the recent rawhide changelogs > and seeing non-critical changes being committed, mostly by people @redhat.com. > I don't want to draw any far-fetched conclusions, but I wonder what's going on > here. Why was I actively discouraged from pushing my change, which would have > zero side-effects but would have made gnomeradio in vanilla F-10 fully functional? >From what I saw in today's (2008/11/04) rawhide report all of the packages that got updated had some commonalities: 1) Would be in one of the "official" Live images, and therefore difficult/impossible to update once F10 was released. 2) Security fixes. 3) Very popular apps. >From what I saw GIMP only fit in category 3, but I think you'd have to agree that GIMP is a much more widely used app than gnomeradio. -- Jeff Ollie "You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5: "A Late Delivery from Avalon" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
