Maintainer Responsibility Policy

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue May 6 19:27:12 UTC 2008


Le lundi 05 mai 2008 à 22:22 -0400, Brian Pepple a écrit :
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 20:10 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Mon, 05 May 2008 21:01:35 -0400
> > bpepple at fedoraproject.org (Brian Pepple) wrote:
> 
> > > === Maintain stability for users ===
> > >       * Package maintainers should limit updates within a single
> > > Fedora release to those which do not require special user action. Many
> > >         users update automatically, and if their applications stop
> > >         working from no action of their own then they will be upset.
> > >         This goes doubly for services which may break overnight. 
> > 
> > I would add additionally: 
> > 
> > "Maintainers should not push every single upstream update to all
> > branches. Examine the changes in each upstream release and ask if the
> > update is worth download and update time for many users. For upstreams
> > that update very often with many small updates, consider waiting and
> > updated only when the amount of changes is worth updating. 
> 
> Added.

***Except for fedora devel***

Maintainers that only update devel a few days before the freeze and
ignore intermediary versions (where problems in the package or in its
interaction with others could be identified and reported upstream) are
as time-wasting as maintainers who push everything everywhere.

Fedora devel has a limited number of users (except just before a
release). That does not mean ignoring it is ok for a maintainer.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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