An alternate proposal to answer the guidelines question.

[Jesse Keating]

On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:40:10 Peter Jones wrote:
> It seems to me that the fundamental question is: what do I do when I
> find a packaging problem?
>
> The answer should be:
>
> 1) Contact the maintainer about it.  Start by filing a bug, work from
> there.  Be reasonable.
> 2) if the maintainer doesn't respond, or won't fix it and can't satisfy
> you with any good reasons why not, then send a note to FESCO.
> Conversely, if you're a maintainer and somebody won't listen to reason
> about when there is a good reason not to change something, contact FESCO.
> 3) when FESCO is notified of a problem, they appoint somebody who they
> trust to do the right thing to arbitrate the dispute.  The arbitrator
> has the right to decide right and wrong here.
> 4) do what the arbitrator says.
> 5) if a maintainer still doesn't fix a package, the arbitrator lets
> FESCO know that we need to start the orphan package process.

+1

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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