Re: Package Review Stats for the week ending January 18th, 2009

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Debarshi Ray wrote:

> Quite true. Recently I did a merge review [1] where among other things
> I mentioned the absense of %{?_smp_flags} while building the package.
> The owner fixed most of the things but just left it out saying that he
> can not be bothered about such irrelevant things. I do not know about
> its relevance, but there is another merge review [2] where shared
> libraries are being installed without invoking ldconfig, and the
> maintainer does not care to respond even a month even though I
> provided a patch to fix most of the issues.

If you have commit access, drop a mail and commit them directly. Most 
maintainers are overflowing in bugzilla mails and there is the delicate 
dance between Fedora and RHEL priorities. On the plus side, people are 
usually open to co-maintainers or even a take over.

Rahul