[Fedora-legacy-list] Re: Initial Scope Determination

Kevin Waterson kevin at oceania.net
Tue Oct 14 21:09:39 UTC 2003


This one time, at band camp, Chuck Wolber <chuckw at quantumlinux.com> wrote:

> 
> > The tricky situation would be the announcement of an urgent security fix
> > (i.e., an exploit is already in the wild) and the previous changelog
> > entrant is hiking Mt. McKinley or has taken a lucrative job in Redmond,
> > WA. :-) Then the wiki could provide a relatively clear channel of
> > communication for volunteers looking to get a patched rpm into the
> > repository.
> 
> Which is why packages should be worked on by multiple people.

Why not assign packages to groups as determined on the redhat installation
eg: development applications/libs, networking applications/libs, games, etc
Then you could have 'teams' assigned to each group of applications thus
eliminating a single point of failure if a single maintainer wanders up
the mountain.

just my $0.02
Kind regards
Kevin

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Kevin Waterson
Port Macquarie, Australia



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