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.
-Steve