Releases in 3 months

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 12:28:10 Scott Kitterman wrote:
> This isn't the first time upstream KDE developers have suggested offloading
> the boring upstream maintenance work to distributions. 

do you think it’s because it is boring? no. it’s because if when this work is 
put on the shoulders of too few people it doesn’t get done. boring has nothing 
to do with it.

upstream often does not know which branches and which feature sets matter to 
downstreams, nor are we able to test all of those branches while downstream 
has the user audience that can.

please stop this “it is shifting responsibility” meme. it’s about finding ways 
to work together more dynamically and within our areas of ability.

> It's still not a
> good idea.  We don't particularly have spare manpower to pick this work up
> and many of us are primarily packagers who lack the skills needed to do
> this.

right, so the challenges highlighted here seem to be:

0. downstreams have typically invested in recruiting and developer packagers, 
not developers

1. packagers seem to feel that if upstream doesn’t do the actual commit to the 
upstream repository, then upstream is not maintaining their software

the first challenge indicates we should try to recruit more people from the 
user community of downstream distributions who have the skills necessary to 
merge patches and test. some distributions do this already, btw.

the second challenge is a matter of mutual understanding which we can work out 
in this very thread.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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