Maintainer Responsibilities

Matej Cepl mcepl at redhat.com
Wed Jun 3 08:21:19 UTC 2009


Bill Nottingham, Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:36:37 -0400:
> Depends on the bug/issue. For security isses, I don't think
> CLOSED->UPSTREAM is appropriate, unless it requires a major architecture
> of the code base. Similarly, if an app is crashing immediately on
> startup, it's not something we necessarily want to just hope upstream
> will fix.

Depends also on maintainer ... we don't require packagers to be 
programmers and proficient in language their package is written.

Matěj




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