On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 16:04:19 +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > When a provenpackager is rebuilding *hundreds* of packages at once, > and trying to deal with maybe dozens of build failures, sending emails > to all the package owners and waiting to see if they respond promptly > is not an efficient way to get things fixed. Waiting for a reply adds > a lot of latency, and then you have to context-switch back to a > package you were dealing with a day or two ago. That's impractical > when you have a patch ready to go now and loads more packages to look > at.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Provenpackager_policy | Provenpackagers should try to communicate with owners of a package in | bugzilla, irc or email prior to making changes. | They should be careful not to change other people's packages needlessly | and try to do the minimal changes required to fix problems, as explained | more in depth in the policy explaining who is allowed to modify which | packages. | -> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Who_is_allowed_to_modify_which_packages Even if says "should" two times, Jerry refers to "no prior contact" and a version upgrade to alpha level software. That doesn't sound like anything provenpackagers should do within arbitrary packages. I wonder whether a message at the top would have changed the provenpackager's mind? > Sometimes a provenpackager will make a bad change, and that's > unfortunate, but it happens. Sometimes package owners make bad changes > too! :-) You're taking it too lightly. Somebody who performs version upgrades really needs to take care of a package and incoming problem reports as well. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
