On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 03:15:11PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
[...]

I'm a little surprised by Peter's email that he also has little
insight into why this was done.  But I have no reason to believe one
person over another in this.  I'll just say I've found Peter to be a
very helpful and trusted packager in the past.

> The problem with proven packager, and I have had it with my
> packages, see note above about a rust SIG member and from other
> people in this thread, is everyone wants things done done
> differently, has their own preferred way of doing things, emails,
> RHBZ, pull requests, etc, some are ignored, some sit for months
> without action, others have outlined this in the thread as well. If
> there was a way where people put a readme or something with details
> I believe it would remove a LOT of the friction.

[Or a comment in the spec file instead of a readme]

Yes, I agree with Peter this is a real problem.

If I'm updating the OCaml packages [as an example of something I'm
planning to do soon] we really have to update and recompile them all
in one go.  It's not feasible to go through a months long asynchronous
process where every package is a special flower.

It's not a problem for OCaml packages since me & Jerry are de facto
maintainers of all of them, but it's a problem for a small subset of
the packages touched by RISC-V updates.

I do think we need a bit less ownership and a bit more shared
responsibility with packaging.  For packages which I maintain, I'm
happy for PPs to touch them without getting permission beforehand.
Just try to do the right thing!

Rich.

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