An alternate proposal to answer the guidelines question.
Hans de Goede
j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Thu May 17 18:18:57 UTC 2007
Peter Jones wrote:
> We were talking about this on #fedora-meeting, and I was asked to write
> up my answer to the question of how to handle violations of the
> packaging guidelines.
>
> 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.
>
In general this sounds reasonable, I especially like how this procedure
normally shouldn't come into play, but only becomes active under exceptional
circumstances.
However the FESco apoints an arbitrator part wories me, the maintainer should
have a say in this too. There are some people in this community who
(unfortunately) mix about as well as fire and water.
Regards,
Hans
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