Hi Michal, first: in general, I agree mostly with your sentiment, and these things have kept me keeping some things out of Factory but well maintained in a "devel project" (e.g. most of the stuff in the "vdr" repo is not in Fatory and will not be until someone steps up to maintain it there who is not me) On 02.02.2016 11:39, Michal Kubecek wrote:
To simplify the problem to the core, what I find discouraging are two patterns:
2. People eagerly accepting requests for packages they are not actively maintaining so that the real maintainer doesn't have chance to respond.
As one of the people with maintainer power over Base:System and a few other "garbage can" projects, I sometime also accept submissions for packages that I'm not connected with. However, because I feel your pain, I usually only pick the ones with trivial changes -- a missing buildrequires or a changed library name for Factory or such. As soon as I cannot quickly find out what the change is doing with a look at the diff (and a "spec-cleaner" run clearly makes this impossible), I will not dare accepting the package. Well, unless it's lying around for a long time and was clearly broken before (e.g. build failure).
(I can understand this if maintainer does not respond for, say, a week; but five hours on Sunday?)
When these two meet for one request, the result is really frustrating.
I'm totally with you on that one :-) -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org