I have seen way too many problems caused by people installing such *nonmaintained* packages to even think this will cause more troubles than it will solve.
Alex ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vít Ondruch" <vondr...@redhat.com> > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 3:32:33 PM > Subject: Re: Proposal for revitalizing the sponsorship process for packaging > > Dne 26.4.2012 18:13, Alec Leamas napsal(a): > > On 04/26/2012 05:49 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:32:17 +0200, AL (Alec) wrote: > >> > >>> OT? The question here isn't really what submitters do or don't, > >>> isn't > >>> it what we could do to improve the process?. > >> The point is that not all submitters are collaborative, and others > >> don't > >> seek for sponsors actively. In the needsponsor queue are lots of > >> tickets > >> where packages are not ready or where a reviewer is simply waiting > >> for > >> the submitter to respond. It isn't sooooo easy to find submitters > >> who > >> are willing for compromise and adapt the Fedora's requirements. > > People are note always nice, agreed. But isn't part of the problem > > that current process forces people which just are interested in a > > package to suddenly discover that they are applying to be > > packagers? > > Shouldn't some of these cases be better off if they could drop > > "their" package in some kind of wishlist 2.0, and try to get in > > contact with a packager instead? > > I am thinking about some "dumping" repository, where people would > dump > their packages and they would need almost no qualification. Of course > using such packages would be without any warranty. The packages would > not be owned by anybody, so everybody would improve them (or > eventually > corrupt them ;)). Once somebody would be interested enough to become > official maintainer, he would apply to official review and the > package > would get into official Fedora repo. > > Actually it shouldn't be that hard to achieve it with tiny changes to > current infrastructure IMO. It seems to be still better option then > to > trust to 3rd party repo or OBS. > > > Vit > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
