The community has lost control... (Was: Re: Don't put new packages through updates-testing)

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 15:36 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 03.06.2007 15:17, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 June 2007 02:48:35 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >> Well, see all those discussion that happened when ACLs were added, kjoi
> >> introduced, the freezes were introduced and bodi put in place. Sure,
> >> there are always discussions, but all those were quite worse and there
> >> was a lot of confusion afaics... Don't read fedora-maintainers for a
> >> week and suddenly you are not aware of how to build or push a package.
> > So without reading the mailing list for maintainers,
> 
> A low-traffic fedora-maintainers-announce was requested multiple times
> as some contributors mentioned that fedora-maintainers is to noisy for
> them.
One way traffic is inappropriate for a community project.

> Like it or not, but for some people fedora-maintainers has to much
> traffic;
Then they better should not be maintainers!

This is Fedora, a wanna-be community project. Community projects live
from communication. If you want it to be success, these people will have
to leave their secret chambers and crawl into the light ;)

>  so they just skim over it and easily miss important announcements.
If there were any ...

Ralf