(Heading off topic here) Re: Fedore Core 4 Test 2 - Damaged ISOs?

[Thomas Cameron]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:04:30AM Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:10:30AM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>> Do you know if this problem is being or has been addressed upstream? 
>> Just
>> curious...
>
> The cases I know about are fixed in -ac thus in RHEL4, Centos and FC3 but
> not FC4. One reason for asking if FC3 works is to make sure its all 
> covered
> by that one fix set. Unfortunately the IDE upstream maintainer doesn't 
> seem
> to be interested in that or the security holes with pcmcia ide in the base
> kernel (also fixed in -ac)

Thanks for the response...  Now this is probably going off topic so if you 
want me to take it off list I will:

What happens when an upstream maintainer isn't keeping up?  Does the kernel 
community take some sort of vote, or does Linus get involved, or what? 
Again, this is just out of my personal curiosity...

Thanks!
Thomas