Maintainer Responsibilities

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Jun 3 03:11:38 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 05:09 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> I disagree. Reporters are "users" - "customers" if you like to.
> 
> You can't expect them to do anything, nor demand them to do anything, 
> nor force them to do anything.
> 
> That said, I consider it to be a Fedora package's maintainer's job
> and 
> duty to act as moderator/arbiter/coordinator to initiate appropriate 
> communication/interaction between all different parties (reporter, 
> packager, upstreams) "when necessary/if required".

I agree with this.  If it isn't clarified in maintainer's
responsibility, perhaps it should be.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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