On 8/14/12 8:49 AM, "Steve Grubb" <sgrubb(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 04:29:39 AM Spencer R. Shimko wrote:
> Our patches, if necessary, will always be additive. We will always
>engage
> the relevant community first. Hence this RFC. *We are not forking*.
> Quite to the contrary, we learned from Red Hat. Red Hat carries
>countless
> patches to upstream repositories. They include those patches in source
> RPMs. You don't consider those packages containing patches forks do you
> Shawn?
We have an upstream first policy. We find problems, talk with upstream
about the
problem, submit patches that are acceptable by upstream, only then do we
patch
an old release that we want some stability in. We re-base to a current
release
that allows us to drop patches when convenient.
I'm not sure why you are raising this point. I clearly stated that we
will communicate with upstream first very clearly:
"We will always engage the relevant community first."
Thanks though,
--Spencer
-Steve