On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 23:12 +0200, David Nielsen wrote: > tir, 10 10 2006 kl. 15:57 -0400, skrev Ernest L. Williams Jr.: > > > Forgive me, if I ask a dumb/newbie question. > > What does it mean by upstream? > > Generally this means the source of the product, e.g. the Apache project > being upstream for the apache package. The gain of getting fixes > upstream naturally being that the problem is solved for everyone at once > and downstream (in this case the Fedora project) doesn't have to carry > and support a patch, a counterproductive and wasteful way to spend our > time. Thanks for the excellent explanation. -- Ernesto > > - David Nielsen > -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list