Adam Miller (maxamillion@fedoraproject.org) said:
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com wrote:
<snip> > Take a random downstream app. (Firefox is an example, but there are many > others.) Right now, it only needs to track a single version of python, > or a single auth framework, even if it may be used on any desktop or any > spin. The implication is that in some sort of future with SIG-specific > conflicting frameworks, this downstream app maintainer now must be familiar > with, and handle *all* of the frameworks, even though they're not > specifcally a part of any SIG. That's sort of a rotten thing to do to > Joe Random Maintainer. > > You could say that the SIG needs to then supply people to handle every > potential downstream app, but that's also not nice, and is going to lead > to fun coordination with updates. <snip>
I don't think that's an issue either, I'm not proposing we change anything such that it could cause problems.
Toshio was, and that's what I'm responding to.
Bill