Broken upgrade paths in F7

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 15 May 2007 at 21:08, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 00:23 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > >> 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.
> 
> No, it doesn't.  Making a general policy to solve the current situation
> will not be accomplished through the proper channels before Thursday,
> which is when Deep Freeze occurs.  Creating such a general policy
> _cannot_ be rushed.  It needs to be drafted, posted to -maintainers,
> solicited for feedback, revised, and sent to FESCo.

I think new packages shouldn't need additional approval beyond the usual
review.

> For this current situation, Ralf has already stated that he feels it is
> rel-eng's responsibility to fix the upgrade paths for his packages.  At
> best, Ralf will submit a request himself.  In the middle, he'll be
> agreeable to another maintainer doing it on his behalf.  At worst,
> someone from rel-eng can do it with a bit of proper research.  I am
> prepared to do that as it seems to be the only way to solve this at the
> moment.

I have to admit I kind of liked the "rolling release" development model of
Extras, though, personally, I tried to avoid major version bumps in anything
but devel branch. I understand that the current change is part of the price
to pay for the merge. Something along the lines of
$ koji request-tag f7-final packagename
<launches an editor so that I can write why I want this tagged>
<sends mail to rel-eng or whatever else is necessary>
would've been nice, though.

Regards,
R.

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