Co-maintainersip policy for Fedora Packages

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Greg Dekoenigsberg schrieb:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> What about an IRC teach-in?  What if we had a couple of packagers who,
>>> once a month or so, took a couple of hours to run a packaging tutorial in
>>> real time?
>> "Learning by doing" and especially the part "*making errors* and learn
>> from them" (¹) is IMHO important, especially for packaging.
>> In other words: I don't think a IRC packaging tutorial will be a big
>> help as those that will give that tutorial will probably be experts
>> already and experts often forgot all those small errors they did in the
>> beginning.
> What if we're teaching by leading newbies through the packaging of actual 
> orphaned/wishlist packages?

I for one would not be interested to package something I don't even use
and/or I have no interest in. And it IMHO might lead to bad package quality.

So encouraging new packagers to do that is IMHO not a good idea.

CU
thl