<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Jon Ciesla <<a href="mailto:limb@jcomserv.net">limb@jcomserv.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"> > Hi, > > A friend of mine pinged me and asked about the status of this bug > > <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442921" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442921</a> > > Just using this as an example here since it a simple one. This is > apparently just a simple missing dependency but hasn't been fixed in a > while. Just using this as a example, assuming that the maintainer is > busy, on vacation or something and cvsextras is open, many others could > fix this issue bypassing the primary maintainer for the moment but there > doesn't seem to be any policy on what kind of fixes can be collectively > done. I remember seeing similar discussions before so this isn't a > isolated problem. Do we need some guidelines on this so folks like > Michael Schwendt (again, just as an example specific to this bug report) > can just go ahead and fix the problem noting the details in the commit > message instead of having to file a bug report? </div>My left brain side says, maybe we need a policy. My right brain side says, if the acl is open, and you can fix it, fix it. Might actually check out doing that on some easy bugs I've reported. </blockquote><div> It's a tough call, and really comes down to an issue by issue thing. In this issue there are a couple things going against it. 1) It's a bug regarding a released version, so any changes would require bodhi updates 2) it's essentially enabling a feature, that may or may not work and one would hope that if there was a reason this wasn't turned on, it would be listed in the spec file. For those reasons, I wouldn't be quick to jump in and try to fix it. It'd be worth doing a scratch build just to see if it would compile, and maybe work but I still wouldn't feel comfortable without talking to the maintainer in question first. -- Jes </div></div>