Communication is a two way street, and as an upstream I cannot be in
the business of pinging every single downstream about every single
change individually, in particular if I consider the change
unimportant.
Sure, that makes sense.
To learn about changes upstream, please follow the upstream
discussions, thank you.
However, this isn’t practical. The 1619! members of the packager group can’t be following
every single upstream mailing list of every single project they depend on or they may be
affected by. That is why we have
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_responsibilities#Notify_...
, and why we _need_ that policy; it is not a gratuitous bureaucratic nonsense.
Both systemd and Fedora would benefit if this communication were factored out like this,
by having a Fedora liaison/“watcher” of systemd¹ that is primarily concerned with needs of
Fedora and impact on Fedora.
Mirek
¹ The Package maintainer responsibilities document places this on the package maintainers;
but this would work equally well if anyone else did this, with or without commit rights to
the systemd RPM.