On 02/26/2012 07:43 AM, Dave Plater wrote:

After continually getting multimedia packages that I was working on in home:plater, messed up by other submissions I had the bright idea to make the package the devel project of the multimedia:libs package. Unfortunately I can't delete or "undevel" the package and with my current situation I'm not on line enough to manage this either.

The problem I attempted to address is a real problem though, there should be a way for a maintainer to lock the package that he's working on, especially before release when there's a lot of activity.

The key here is communication and not ignorance, which you showed here: https://build.opensuse.org/stage/package/rdiff?linkrev=base&package=libconfig&project=multimedia%3Alibs&rev=3 where you simply chopped a previous submission (by yours truly): https://build.opensuse.org/stage/package/rdiff?linkrev=base&package=libconfig&project=multimedia%3Alibs&rev=2 The key concept here would have been called 'merging' and isn't really specific to OBS. But lets go on a bit, after 'working' on that package, you reopened a request to Factory (https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/106980) that was reasonably declined (see our packaging policies). It's rather funny that I wanted to do you a favor with just the above submission and fix your issues ;-) Long story short, I would really appreciate if you could stop pretending to be the one true source of wisdom and try to collaborate with others (like me). And don't try to make your home project the devel project for any other project (please revert if you already did), otherwise I'll make mine a devel project of yours! -- Viele Grüße, Sascha Peilicke