On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:34:56PM +0200, Jesse Keating wrote: > On 09/23/2010 10:59 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > > I would be very nice if the evolution maintainers would bother to > > follow the policy that all the rest of us have to follow of either > > notifying or actually doing the grunt work of the rebuilds. > > What might help is making this policy easier to find. I tried to find > it, and first I looked in > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Package_Maintainers but I didn't > see anything directly related to updates, I had to resort to the big > list of pages below, and looked at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_HOWTO and then > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_guidelines and finally > found a link to > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/MaintainerResponsibility > where I found near the bottom > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/MaintainerResponsibility#Notify_others_of_changes_that_may_affect_their_packages > > I would think that the Maintainer Responsibility page would have a much > more prominant display on the Category:Package_Maintainers page, and the > sub item about notifications should be linked to from the update_HOWTO > and update_guidelines pages. > > Anybody want to take on the task of re-arranging this stuff? Would the packaging committee be in a position to ensure this gets done? Package maintainer docs have long been confusing, and ISTM like that issue has been ongoing. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
