On 23/03/2019 18:36, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 3/22/19 12:05 PM, Richard Brown wrote:
As this discussion includes a number of SUSE employees on both sides of the debate, I feel it appropriate to remind all involved that they are expected to follow _SUSEs_ Open Source Policy, which clearly lays out the companies expectations for it's employees on the topics of Open Source contributions, Upstream First, Factory First, openSUSE, etc.
I'm always following the open source policy and I always upstream everything which means that almost all the bugs I have fixed in Debian packages are also now fixed in openSUSE.
In fact, the reason why the Azure SDK updates were delayed is because I found issues with the SDK and got in touch with upstream to resolve them upstream.
This is why I am particularly annoyed about this whole story. I'm trying to make sure that changes are properly tested, necessary bugs reported upstream or patches sent upstream and then someone else disturbs my maintenance work by updating random, individual packages of the Azure stack.
But part of the open source policy also means working productively with other people in the community especially those who may also want to contribute to the packages you are working on. I guess in this case whoever sent the update for 2 packages is mostly only interested in those two packages for whatever reason. So working productively with the open source community is far more then just "upstreaming everything" its explaining to people why you can't accept there requests right now, and working with the d:l:p maintainers to make sure you have fair time to explain that before they accept / reject requests. But certainly blocking all incoming SR's (or ignoring them or suggesting that people shouldn't make them) is not working as a cooperative member of an open source project. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org