New Package Process

[John Dennis]

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 21:20 +0200, Florian La Roche wrote:
> > Practically speaking, anyone can make changes to any package by talking
> > with and building a relationship with the package maintainer. This is not
> 
> At least for a devel cycle we should be even more open. Otherwise small
> improvements are often not done at all.
> Just look at todays rawhide report and ask Jeremy why he didn't leave a
> one-line change in 15 packages up to the individual maintainers to finish
> off.

The concept of a very small highly trusted group that has the authority
to alter every package is necessary. There are some circumstances that
demand this, but that not the same as opening packages up for
modification by the general community.
-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>