Self-Introduction: Jonathan Leighton

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:15:04 -0800, Per Bjornsson wrote:

[Inkscape 0.40]

> Yes, but shouldn't there at least be a bugzilla entry in the fedora.us
> bugzilla?

No.

Using bugzilla for package submissions and package updates has been
considered extra burden for package maintainers. Hence for several
months, trusted developers can update/upgrade their packagers without
needing to wait for QA in bugzilla. With fedora.us' infrastructure
they would open a ticket as a build request for a src.rpm. But since
FC3 builds are not done at fedora.us, the Inkscape packager didn't
open such a ticket.

> How else is anyone supposed to know what is in the pipeline?
> Knowing that is quite essential for avoiding duplicate work.

Well, the current situation is exceptional. With packages being
maintained in CVS, you would use different means of monitoring package
development.

In either case, though, you would never know what's _planned_ until
you talked to the packager and participated in the planning actively.
You would only see actual changes when they are applied and before
something would be built.

And currently at fedora.us, all new packages are still tracked in
bugzilla. So, there is no duplicate work unless you worked on somebody
else's packages while he is preparing updates himself. In that case,
you can't really avoid any human-to-human communication.

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