Maintainer Responsibilities

[Ralf Corsepius]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Steve Grubb wrote:
>> Not if its closed. How would I be notified that the fix is in Fedora? If
>> the bug is severe enough, shouldn't the upstream commit be applied to
>> Fedora's package and the package pushed out for testing? Is all this going
>> to happen if the bug is closed?
> 
> You're supposed to be the reporter of or CCed on the upstream bug, then
> you'll get notified of the fix and can reopen our bug asking for a backport
> of the fix if it's really that important (but keep in mind that Fedora
> packages often get upgraded to a bugfix release anyway, for example our KDE
> gets upgraded to a bugfix release about once a month).
You are still presuming your users to be interested in developing and 
working on your package.

This simply does not apply - They want to use your package.

> As maintainers, we will also try to CC ourselves on those upstream bugs to
> track their status, but utilimately it's the reporter who cares the most
> about seeing his/her bug fixed.
I could not disagree more. People with this kind of attude should lable 
themselves maintainer and stop packaging packages in Fedora.

Ralf