----- Original Message -----
From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg(a)gmail.com>
To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 1:57:24 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.
Because FESCO is an engineering committee and in engineering things usually can be
measured. What we speak about is a social problem for me. Aka noone is obligated to do
anything.
Does that governing body only exist to say yay or nay to others
proposals?
Yes, because everywhere in FOSS one must be ready to work on what he wants.
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.
But you think that if I don't have time to work on someone's bugreport I should be
banned??
That's what I call a friendly atmosphere.
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.
So do all of us!!! Hence why I'm so angry at ideas for putting more requirements on
packagers.
My first and foremost priority is to get the migration process over
with.....
JBG
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