Broken upgrade paths in F7

[Rahul Sundaram]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 00:14 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Josh Boyer wrote:
>>
>>> I suggested we wait a couple days.  Ralf has not officially declared his
>>> packages to be orphaned.  I'm hoping he'll be amenable to perhaps
>>> another maintainer submitting the tag request since he's taking a break
>>> from Fedora.
>> That's all well and good for this specific instance but I am talking 
>> more about a general policy. How are you going to handle instances where 
>> maintainers refuse to cooperate? Step in and workaround them or consider 
>> the packages orphaned and pull them off?
> 
> I have no energy to discuss some theoretical policy for a situation that
> should hopefully not occur more than a few times.  I'm not saying you're
> wrong to address that, however.  If you would like to have a discussion
> on that, please start a new thread.  It's not a discussion or policy
> that will be finalized before F7 releases.

I guess that depends on things like whether Ralf wants to follow the 
freeze process or not.

Rahul