On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<dominik(a)greysector.net> wrote:
You know, I'm somewhat disappointed in the uneven treatment of
packagers here.
A couple of days ago, I wanted to break the freeze and push an update to gnomeradio
that would make the application fully usable again (as it is now, it crashes
every time you try to name a radio station), but I was told (by Jesse himself,
and some other nice folks) to wait until after F-10 is released, because it
wasn't "critical enough". And now I'm reading the recent rawhide
changelogs
and seeing non-critical changes being committed, mostly by people @redhat.com.
I don't want to draw any far-fetched conclusions, but I wonder what's going on
here. Why was I actively discouraged from pushing my change, which would have
zero side-effects but would have made gnomeradio in vanilla F-10 fully functional?
From what I saw in today's (2008/11/04) rawhide report all of the
packages that got updated had some commonalities:
1) Would be in one of the "official" Live images, and therefore
difficult/impossible to update once F10 was released.
2) Security fixes.
3) Very popular apps.
From what I saw GIMP only fit in category 3, but I think you'd
have to
agree that GIMP is a much more widely used app than gnomeradio.
--
Jeff Ollie
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then
I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the
terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve
them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and
unfairness of the universe."
-- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5: "A Late Delivery from Avalon"