Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-testing (39 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Tilman Schmidt <tilman@xxxxxxx> [04-12-09 06:50]:
> Ok, that splits my question in three:
>
> a) How do I get my patch included if he is still maintaining it?

Send it to the packager.

> b) How do I get my patch included if he isn't maintaining it anymore?

Build the package yourself, or beg that someone else will pick it up.

> c) How do I find out which of the two is the case?

I have found that *usually* the last entry in the "changelog" will
provide the name/email addr of the packager.

> Which are, of course, instances of general questions about the way
> openSUSE want's to handle external contributions:
>
> a) What happens to contributions if a maintainer is so overburdened he
> or she doesn't even have the capacity to approve contributions that are
> otherwise ready for inclusion?

Request/assume those duties, fork, or do without.

> b) What happens to contributions if a maintainer leaves?

Someone else picks it up or it dies.

> c) How can contributors find their responsible maintainer (or absence
> of same)?

rpm -qi <package-name>
or read the latest entry in the changelog

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