contributing a software through bugzilla

[Rahul Sundaram]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 11:19 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 05:01:07AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> As I see it, community contributed Fedora is only able to handle
>>> "trivial, mass-market" packages. I'd presume that most "non-trivial
>>> packages", which currently are part of Core and 100% under RH control
>>> (E.g. GCC, kernel, glibc, perl ...) would have never made it into FE.
>> That's not so obvious since, although they are very complicated packages 
>> they are also very widely used.
> Are you seriously telling me you would accept a package which has 30 or
> more patches applied? 
> 
> You would tell the maintainer to tell upstream to fix them.

Not in all cases. Sometimes there are valid reasons to patch. Nobody 
wants to adds patches and creates additional maintenance work for 
themselves for fun.  Many patches Any critical package in your list 
would have definitely passed review in FE because of their critical 
nature and popularity.

You can see many such packages going through merge review. Complication 
in the packages might slow down the review process but it would happen 
nevertheless. For obscure packages the reviews might just not happen at 
all.

Rahul