Last warning don't modify my packages!!!

[Brandon Holbrook]

Christopher Stone wrote:
> On 10/12/06, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I am seriously tempted to just modify Frank's package so he will quit
> Fedora.  Perhaps we will be better off.  LOL! ;-)
I'm sure there are plenty of others (including myself) who had the same 
thought.  Thorsten's written a few times lately about his ideal of 
getting rid of this kind of attitude from package maintainers and I 
completely agree.  As a relatively new member, I can attest that this 
foreboding 'others-need-not-apply' attitude discourages involvement and 
more importantly the spirit of a community.  I'd much rather see 
maintainers take the attitude that many have expressed in this thread: 
"if you need to change something of mine, feel free"

Granted, package maintainers (usually) went to all the work of getting 
their package up-to-snuff for approval and continually monitor 
upstream's mailing lists and announcements to stay current, and the 
feeling of ownership and pride is what keeps most of us interested in 
software in the first place.  But keep in mind, this is all Open Source 
Software, and more than that this is Fedora, whose sole existence is 
based around _community_ involvement, not individuals who happen to be 
in the same CVS repository.