I have seen way too many problems caused by people installing such *nonmaintained*
packages to even think this will cause more troubles than it will solve.
Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vít Ondruch" <vondruch(a)redhat.com>
To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 3:32:33 PM
Subject: Re: Proposal for revitalizing the sponsorship process for packaging
Dne 26.4.2012 18:13, Alec Leamas napsal(a):
> On 04/26/2012 05:49 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:32:17 +0200, AL (Alec) wrote:
>>
>>> OT? The question here isn't really what submitters do or don't,
>>> isn't
>>> it what we could do to improve the process?.
>> The point is that not all submitters are collaborative, and others
>> don't
>> seek for sponsors actively. In the needsponsor queue are lots of
>> tickets
>> where packages are not ready or where a reviewer is simply waiting
>> for
>> the submitter to respond. It isn't sooooo easy to find submitters
>> who
>> are willing for compromise and adapt the Fedora's requirements.
> People are note always nice, agreed. But isn't part of the problem
> that current process forces people which just are interested in a
> package to suddenly discover that they are applying to be
> packagers?
> Shouldn't some of these cases be better off if they could drop
> "their" package in some kind of wishlist 2.0, and try to get in
> contact with a packager instead?
I am thinking about some "dumping" repository, where people would
dump
their packages and they would need almost no qualification. Of course
using such packages would be without any warranty. The packages would
not be owned by anybody, so everybody would improve them (or
eventually
corrupt them ;)). Once somebody would be interested enough to become
official maintainer, he would apply to official review and the
package
would get into official Fedora repo.
Actually it shouldn't be that hard to achieve it with tiny changes to
current infrastructure IMO. It seems to be still better option then
to
trust to 3rd party repo or OBS.
Vit
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