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

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Patrice Dumas schrieb:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 07:36:06PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> I don't want to be negative here, nor show disrepect to FESCo members,
>>> but I don't think being FESCo members should qualify here. A FESCo member
>>> could be there to represent something and not because he has great 
>>> technical ability to fix packages.
>> Well, I think all FESCo members normally should have a "technical
>> ability to fix packages". Maybe one time there will be someone in FESCo
>> that might not have it, but a FESCo member should be able to know about
>> that and leave such work to others. And otherwise yell on the
>> mailinglists ;) Errors get made by everyone and can be fixed.
> That is true for all the fedora contributors. I can't see why FESCo members
> should be treated specially.

I thought it's obvious: Because it's their job to keep Extras running
and in a good shape. (Site note: I disagree slightly with Ralfs "FESCo
is a political organ" statement in this thread. I think FESCo should be
more a technical organ that keeps stuff just rolling -- but sure, that
involves politics, so he has it's point and it's not worth debating)

Nevertheless, I removed that note -- we had two people that disliked it
and no one that backed it, it isn't much of and issue now because all
FESCo members are sponsors, so I removed it.

Find the latest version of the proposal at
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Schedule/FixStuffThatNeedsFixing
stuff that changed in the past days can be looked at, too:
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Schedule/FixStuffThatNeedsFixing?action=diff&rev2=5&rev1=3


CU
thl