Some recent changes

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Tue Oct 20 21:56:56 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 22:16 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:

> 
> I was under the impression that only rawhide left package maintainers 
> with a kind of liberty to ship patches that are not (yet) accepted 
> upstream. I'm not sure how this aligns with the current situation where 
> all of our gears are lined up towards releasing Fedora 12, while GNOME 
> packages may have patches that may not be accepted upstream (yet) by the 
> time Fedora 12 is released. It's not so much a tight schedule I guess 
> since Fedora 12 is still a few weeks away, but then again I'm not 
> familiar with how fast GNOME responds to patches adding new "features" 
> however of minor impact.

Sorry, but now you've lost me. Where do you get the idea that we would
not be allowed to ship patches ? How do you envision we fix bugs, if not
by patching things ?! 

Confused, 

Matthias




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