[fab] Re: "community maintainers working on core" dilemma

[Jesse Keating]

On Wednesday 09 August 2006 14:50, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> It seems to me that it's not the fact that patches are getting lost, or
> that people aren't uploading it.  Part of it is that it requires a human
> to filter and maintainers are already overloaded as it is.  Why isn't it
> that we can't have a system that keeps track of changes, let's anyone
> try out a change without a hassle and then the patches that people are
> using are filtered automatically to the top of a maintainer's queue?
> Something like this would make people wildly more productive, connecting
> developers, users and maintainers easily without the tools getting in
> the way.
>
> Yeah, this means stepping outside of the usual bugzilla and rpm
> mindsets.  But we could be doing so much better.

And to be fair, for this particular issue the build failure was on s390(x).  I 
don't think many of our community members has one of these to test with.  The 
solution for FC5 updates was to disable building on the non-shipped arches.  
Unfortunately we can't do that for rawhide / FC6 right now as those builds 
feed RHEL and RHEL has to ship on those platforms.

<insert argument here>

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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