The updates firehose
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jun 10 10:50:29 UTC 2007
Neil Thompson wrote:
>
> And very shortly you're going to be asking for a policy to be written which
> defines when the maintainers are going to be allowed to have bowel movements,
> aren't you?
Completely Unrelated.
>
> The strengths of Fedora are its leading (even bleeding, at times) edge software
> and its maintainers. I had hoped that the merge would lead to more freedom and
> faster throughput for new software, but it looks as though we're on the verge
> of a coup by anal, hide-bound, corporate control freaks. (<- hyperbole, but it
> worries me)
Who exactly are you calling that?
> Please folks - if you're going to build a community, make sure that you have only
> the governance that is necessary and NO MORE! Leave the maintainers (who have been
> appointed to look after the packages) to do their jobs. Address mistakes and issues
> on a case-by-case basis and don't hamstring everyone with a bunch of pettifogging
> rules.
Updates policy has been requested before by community folks too. You
don't even have to necessarily change your current practises. Just
document them explicitly.
Rahul
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