Le jeudi 24 janvier 2013 à 12:11 -0800, Norvald Ryeng a écrit : > I'm sorry to hear about the lack of communication. I'm a MySQL > developer, and for the last year I've been working with different > packagers. Linux distributions are an important part of our community, > and we'd like very much to hear your feedback and help make package > maintainers' lives easier. We've had a really constructive cooperation > on MySQL with Debian and Ubuntu the last year, and I am hoping we can > extend that to Fedora and other distributions. Please let me know how I > can help and be a direct connection to MySQL Engineering, bypassing all > the FUD currently out there.
So let's take a very narrow and specific example, and see what could you do after the fact to make packagers life easier. While working with Remi on a package review[1], I was quite surprised to see that one Oracle engineer created a internal bug for the inclusion of a patch from a external community member, to be added to a free software project. Neither do he care to create proper tarballs, which is While this is less important than the whole story of missing tests cases, that's 2 details that should be easy to get right, so are IMHO a perfect test. So, in order to show the commitment of your employer toward more openness and to make the life of packagers easier, let's try to see if you - can do what it take to have a private bug become fully public, in this case, the bug 13956819, which is referred in the review ( ie, the bug for the inclusion of the patch of Remi ) - can do what it take to actually follow the best practices in term of software distribution, ie publish proper tarballs for mysql-utilities ( among others ) That should not be hard to do, and a easy way to start creating trust between you and the community. What do you think ? [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812099 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
