Package Review Stats for the week ending January 18th, 2009
Toshio Kuratomi
a.badger at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 16:32:21 UTC 2009
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not actively seeking giving away my packages. I'm fine with them
>> as long
>> as they don't demand too much time from me. But I'll just hand them
>> off as
>> soon as a Fedora contributor shows up and wants to make non-trivial
>> changes in
>> them. That's for example how I handed some of my font packages to
>> Nicolas, or
>> my entire ogg vorbis stack to Hans. The point being: I am no the
>> bottleneck /
>> problem / ... with these packages.
>
> One of the rule of thumb was that if you are going to be maintaining the
> package in RHEL, it is better for you to be involved in the Fedora side
> as well for continuity. Otherwise, you would end up inheriting a bunch
> of spec files (and patches) without a complete understanding on the
> history behind them which makes it difficult to work on them, later on.
> Something to consider.
>
....although this can lend itself to a comaintainer role as easily as
ownership. (Not disagreeing, just adding a clarification).
-Toshio
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