[Bug 456955] Review-Request: libzdb - Zild Database Library

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Summary: Review-Request: libzdb - Zild Database Library


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456955





------- Additional Comments From fedora at krishnan.cc  2008-07-30 16:30 EST -------
I don't understand where you guys got the label of "drive-by" submissions.

I am a serious developer and I am NOT trying to gain any personal mileage by 
what you call "drive-by" submissions.  

I like Fedora and I am trying to improve the availability of packages on 
Fedora.

I believe the only problem at that time with the Haskell packages was that I 
could create a lot of packages but did not know that we need to submit SRPMS 
as well.  If I had known that I needed to sumbit the SRPMS as well, you 
wouldn't be labelling like this today.

I am in the process of recreating a lot of those packages, and this time I am 
checking them with rpmlint, running a Fedora Rawhide virtual machine to create 
install and test, and then upload them to this bugzilla.

If  I were you, I would be glad that someone documented the actual steps of 
creating the Haskell packages for a lot of packages that other developers use 
on other distros, but not on Fedora.  At least if there was another developer 
searching for a specific Haskell module on Fedora, he/she could come to this 
bugzilla and follow the steps I had listed to get on with his/her 
requirements.  I don't understand why everyone at your side took so much 
offense to those submissions.  

Of course it would have been nice if I had retained all the SRPMS and uploaded 
them with every one of those emails in the first place, but I must accept my 
lack of the knowledge of the guidelines at that time and am continuing to face 
this denigration.  And guess what, the little of what Fedora Haskell packaging 
guidelines were supposed to be were not even in place, and I an not certain if 
they still are at this time.

So if we all want to get on with the goal of improving the availability of 
packages for Fedora (which I am sure both of us do), then let me submit the 
packages, and I promise I would follow your feedback.  This is irrespective of 
whether you accept the packges for upstream, because having that knowledge 
documented somewhere would serve as a reference for someone else later. 
Unfortunately the only place to do so is this bugzilla, AFAIK.


I do very much appreciate the good work the people on the Fedora team is doing 
and I do value your feedback and criticisms (no offense taken).

-Rajesh Krishnan



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