contributing a software through bugzilla

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 17:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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.
The only legitimate reason to patch is time-lags between upstream and
current version. 

If this isn't reason, then patching is a strong indication for something
about the development model not being functional.