Speaking of contributions...

[Tom Yates]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Pekka Savola wrote:

> ... there's a long list of packages which need very trivial install and "it 
> seems to work" testing, under of "Packages in state RESOLVED":
>
> http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~dom/legacy/issues.txt

personally, i miss dom's periodic round-up mails.  yes, i know i can get 
exactly the same thing on the web, but whenever it came around i made a 
point of seeing if there was anything i could work on, and when i yum'ed a 
-testing package onto my server, i went straight to the roundup to find 
the bugzilla page to log my +VERIFY.

dom, is there any chance you'd consider posting these regularly?

> In particular, I note openmotif, sharutils, ruby, ethereal, and php as ones 
> which require only someone with FC1 to give it a "go ahead". Packages for 
> RHL73 and RHL9 have been stalled due to this.

is it worth starting discussion about separate releases, particularly as 
we move towards inheriting FC2?  i can see the advantages of pushing out, 
say, php fixes for all platforms at once, but i'm not sure they outweigh 
the problems caused by the extended wait for the +VERIFYs for the unloved 
distributions.

or are we having enough acrimonious discussions already?


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   Tom Yates
   Cambridge, UK.