On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 21:25 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 21:01 -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
> == Maintainer Responsibility Policy ==
> === How long to maintain? ===
> 13 months from initial release.
From initial Fedora release right? If you bring a package in around F10
Beta, you're expected to stick around for 13 months after F10 final goes
out.
Correct. I'll clarify that.
> === Belong to the appropriate low-traffic mailing list ===
> * Package maintainers will receive important announcements through
> the moderated fedora-devel-announce mailing list. Maintainers
> will be automatically subscribed to this list.
Do we have this hooked up now, or is that a future item (the
autosubscribing)
I thought that was already hooked up, but I could be mistaken on that
point. Is anyone aware of the status of this?
>
> === Deal with reported bugs in a timely manner ====
> * 'Nuff said.
I would note here that putting a comment in the bug letting folks know
when you're going to be too busy to look at the bug immediately would
help.
Agreed. I'll add it.
> === Notify others of changes that may affect their packages ===
> * Some packages are depended upon by others; in this case, changes
> to one package may cause issues for others. Maintainers should
> be aware of the effects that changes to their packages may have,
> and should alert to the fedora-devel-announce mailing list of
> updates which contain ABI or API changes which may cause
> dependency problems for other packages. The announcement should
> occur a week before the packages update, so all maintainers
> affected are notified. The announcement should include the
> following information:
> * Nature of the change.
> * Branches (devel, F9, etc.) which will be affected by the
> change.
> * Expected date of the change.
> * List of packages which are affected by the change.
> Generally, this is merely the list of packages which
> depend directly on the package which is being updated,
> and can be found with "repoquery --whatrequires package"
> where "package" is the package being updated.
Shouldn't there be an --all there, as well as looking at what packages
BuildRequire yours?
Yeah, I think your right.
Thanks for the feedback, Jesse.
Later,
/B
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