Am Donnerstag, den 18.03.2010, 21:41 +0100 schrieb Martin Sourada:
The design team is in charge of actually creating the new backgrounds and it's only our good will that we also do the packaging (well, we've been doing it for the past 4 or so releases, so it practically is our task to make the package as well).
Sorry, but whoever does the packaging clearly is in charge of notifying the other maintainers, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_responsibilities#Notify_ot...
Making it default is IMHO task for respective spin owners / SIG members. It's easier for them to read around the Alpha freeze the fedora weekly news' artwork section than for the design team to keep in mind which spins are using the default wallpaper, and which have their own and which packages needs the changes to use the new default.
I might be wrong but AFAIK all the spins (should) use the default artwork. So it should be pretty easy to ping everybody. And if a spin doesn't use the default artwork (KDE?), then there is no reason for the spin maintainers to get notified. Or am I mistaken here?
I wonder what might be the best way to handle this. Certainly, now that I know about that lxde and xfce are just using whatever is in d-b-compat, I can include you and the d-b, lxde-common, lxdm na xfdesktop owners in my notify list
It should be sufficient to just use desktop-background-owner but I don't mind also having lxde-common-owner and xfdesktop-owner as fallback.
(or even ask for commit rights on d-b and do the change myself)...
This might be even better since none of the 17 maintainers of desktop-backgrounds seems to really care about the package.
But as this happens twice in a year, I always forget about these things...
Same here ;)
Anyway, I'm open to suggestions how to make the process better.
Hey, it was not that bad, at least it has worked better than last year. In F12 I had to do the update after beta freeze, so there definitely was an improvement. ;)
Thanks, Martin
Thanks for all your hard and excellent work. I appreciate what you do for Fedora very much.
Regards, Christoph