Use list both ways

[Steve Cossette]

I don't personally mind, though any fixes we apply downstream that we
deem... "worthy", for lack of a better word, we submit it upstream using a
bug report.

What might also be useful is a common chat platform to speak of packaging
woes, i.e. if distros still have issues packaging Union for example.

(But now it dawns on me that wasn't the purpose of the original post...
Sorry!)

On Sun, Sep 20, 2026, 9:43 a.m. Martin Steigerwald <martin at lichtvoll.de>
wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> During his talk "Packaging KDE on Debian"¹ Sandro brought up there is not
> much communication about downstream backports and other downstream work
> towards upstream again. And also that coordination between different
> distributions is rare.
>
> I wondered whether it would make sense to use this list both ways. So far
> it has mostly been used for upstream to communicate important patches or
> hot fixes to downstream vendors. But it also could be used by downstream
> people to communicate backports or other work they did. That way upstream
> people can give feedback or give hints.
>
> What do you think? Would that be useful?
>
> This list is quite low volume, so I do not see any issue with downstream
> work summaries posted here once in a while. While I think cross-
> distribution coordination may need a different communication channel that
> way a Gentoo developer can more easily see what was done in Debian and
> vice versa as well².
>
> [1] https://conf.kde.org/event/11/contributions/339/
>
> [2] Just an example. Not meant to exclude any distributions or BSD
> variants.
>
> Best,
> --
> Martin
>
>
>
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