----- Original Message -----
From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg(a)gmail.com>
To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:57:24 PM
Subject: Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...
On 11/22/2011 09:40 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 11/22/2011 04:51 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> On 11/21/2011 10:50 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>> I understand this thread as a comment on improving the detection
>>> of
>>> inactive maintainers and unmaintained packages.
>> It is indeed intended as such.
> I would recommend you stop this thread at this point and write up a
> concrete proposal and submit it to FESCo and/or help with scripts
> that
> automate the detection of potentially unmaintained packages. I
> would
> also recommend that you become a package maintainer so that you are
> aware of the other side and understand the problem areas better.
First of all why do I need to come up with a concrete proposal to
FESCO
why dont they come up with something to try to improve the
distribution.
You don't improve distribution, when you start bullying contributors. Bunch
of people were already annoyed with your proposal.
Does that governing body only exist to say yay or nay to others
proposals?
Imho FESCo should mainly decide about technical difficulties. All of us
already have our own projects, so why should I care about this one?
Anyone on list can get your idea and work on heuristics if (s)he believes
it helps and than propose some actions.
Secondly the only reason I don't maintain packages within the
distribution is because I'm fully aware that I dont have time in
doing so.
So instead of me working under the illusion that I can resulting in
me
half ass maintaining stuff at best I rather choose not, to cause I
know
for a fact that nobody gains anything from it infact I would just be
signing up to become the part of the problem not the solution if I
did.
And I'm already fully aware of the other side given that I receive
every
bug filed at systemd and I also can tell you that of each of ca 8 of
10
bugs filed there the reporter should be filing against relevant
component containing their unit files as opposed to systemd itself. (
Apparently if anything fails at bootup it's systemd's fault )
I am giving what I can when I can, to contribute the distribution and
my
actions there speak well enough for themselves and will continue to
do so.
My first and foremost priority is to get the migration process over
with.....
JBG
Marcela