On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 16:06 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote: > We had people ready to step up beforehand. I had volunteered, and > perhaps others. But david said he had it, so it was left alone. > ... > > There was fair warning, but nothing anyone can do if the owner is > holding a package hostage. David, the owner, said he would do it, and > didn't. And then it was dropped. That's broken. The reason this doesn't happen in Core is because we tend not to be so possessive about our packages. With a few highly-strung exceptions, you can generally just commit sensible fixes to any package which needs them and the maintainer will be happy that you helped them out. It's a _team_ effort. Extras seems to lack that ethos, and people get massively proprietorial about their packages. And _that_, I think, is the root of the problem here. David is busy. He meant to fix it up, but he just didn't get round to it -- I can sympathise with that. But if this package had been in Core, someone else would have done it. -- dwmw2 -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
