On 11/24/2010 12:22 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 08:31:15AM +0000, "Jóhann B.
Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 11/23/2010 06:51 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> IMO, the real problem is not "backports" vs. "upgrading" to
"fix bugs",
>> it's bugs not getting fixed in Fedora, for a variety of reasons.
>>
>> Therefore, I consider trying to apply any such simple "policy" to be
>> impossible and naive.
>
> Agreeable logical conclusion.
>
> The underlying problem needs to get address and fixed first.
>
> I proposed this as a possible long term solution in one rough possible
> way a bit back on a different list to try to address the underlying
> issue but I did not receive any feedback on that proposal.
>
> 1. Improve the general standard of packagers ( need to at least have
> upstream bugzilla account and are part of or in good communication with
> the upstream community )
"One size doesn't fit everybody"
This is applicable in some occasions, but is non-applicable in many.
> 2. Allow all maintainers to touch every component in Fedora note
that
> maintainer that brought the component to Fedora is still responsible for
> his components.
>
I like this idea.
Hmm, we already have the proven-packagers group and we already
have the
concept of co-maintainers.
> 4. Assemble a "bug fixing task force" ( can be per
language ) to target
> component ( including testers if needed ).
I like this idea as well however...
Again, proven-packagers already can do this.
At least I occasionally applied my proven-packagers' privileges to
troubleshoot critical situations. However, having done so, one lesson
learnt from this, was this kind of help often only to be a short-term
relief, but not to be a long term cure, because packages which are
suffering from issues a "trouble-shooting group" is able to help often
suffer from much deeper issues.
Also, it's this kind of situations, where Fedora's QA's "delays"
have
shown to be counter-productive.
Ralf