Co-maintainersip policy for Fedora Packages

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Wed Jan 24 19:37:50 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 14:20 -0500, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
> 
>    * It will become obvious when a package needs additional love,
>      especially if we can build some simple tools: for instance, a
>      daily report on the 10 packages with the highest bug rates;

Um, no.  Stay away from a metric like that.  Otherwise stuff like the
kernel will always be flagged.  Packages are only as good as their
upstream.

What you're really looking for is packages that are neglected.  That
different from packages that are buggy but have a responsive maintainer.

josh




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