Policy RFC: When to touch other peoples packages (or: Fix stuff that needs fixing)

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Chris Weyl schrieb:
> On 10/23/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> we had some discussion one or two weeks ago (and some others earlier)
>> when touching other peoples packages in CVS might is okay in Fedora
>> Extras. FESCo worked on a policy for that. Here it is (directly from the
>> wiki at
>> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Schedule/FixStuffThatNeedsFixing
>> ), please comment:
> [...]
> I think there should be a brief passage on what is acceptable to
> change when conducting a maintainer-bypass, however...  e.g. "as much
> as is necessary to fix the problem, and no more." [...]

Quote from the proposal: "experienced packagers should limit their
changes to other people packages to things that are well agreed upon.
i.e. don't fix things considered somewhat controversial or a matter of
style"

That should be enough afaics.

Cu
thl