>>>>> "DW" == David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: DW> Extras seems to lack that ethos, and people get massively DW> proprietorial about their packages. And _that_, I think, is the DW> root of the problem here. I haven't seen too much of that, except for a few highly-strung exceptions. I've gone through and fixed packages before, and in fact we have a policy in under discussion that codifies this. (Basically, trusted members of the community always are free to fix things that need fixing.) That, however, isn't what the current issue is about. The bottom line is that packages still need to have at least one active maintainer, and if the maintainer disappears then we need to make sure that packages don't make it into the next release of the distro. We're up against a deadline here. Packages can always come back; nothing is permanently deleted, and there's no cutoff data for CDs or anything like that. All if would have taken to avoid this issue was a note saying "I'm really busy right now; someone please rebuild my packages and if you like add yourself as a co-maintainer." Problem solved. This happens all the time. We even have SIGs which act as virtual co-maintainers. - J< -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
