#5418: Adopt policy that SCM request should be accepted from authorized users only ---------------------+----------------------- Reporter: ppisar | Owner: rel-eng@… Type: defect | Status: new Milestone: | Component: git Resolution: | Keywords: SCM Blocked By: | Blocking: ---------------------+-----------------------
Comment (by spot):
I would note the following points in my own defense here:
* The Fedora Perl Community is very open about permitting other people to work on perl packages in Fedora. * I added these requests because I needed these perl modules to be built for active Fedora targets so that I could add a new, dependent, perl module to upgrade another one of my perl modules. * These perl package review requests were all done without branching for _ANY_ active Fedora branches (just rawhide), which I feel is inappropriate behavior for a package maintainer unless there is a technical reason preventing the maintainer from releasing a new package on that active Fedora branch. In fact, I thought that this lack of branching was the mistake of a new packager rather than conscious abandonment, which is why I requested branches with identical ownership, instead of simply taking ownership for myself. * There were no technical reasons preventing these perl modules from being maintained in active Fedora branches. I did straight rebuilds with no modifications. * The owners were all CC'd on the bugzilla ticket and received notification of the branching request and approvals. * There is no policy stating that newly reviewed packages may not be released into stable branches, or even any policy discouraging this, which makes the original behavior of the packager to release these packages into rawhide only very confusing.
I'd note for clarification that technically as a member of Rel-Eng, I could have processed my own requests here, but I was not acting in that capacity in these cases (3 total).