[Mageia-dev] [135989]

Thu Sep 1 12:48:27 CEST 2011

On Thursday, 1 September 2011 01:46:17 Zé wrote:
+> 2011/8/31 Balcaen John <mikala at mageia.org>:
+
+> The main point here was how your attitude changed from a certain day.
+> You started rising tone everytime i didnt agree, like you owned kde
+
+But, he is the maintainer:
+$ mgarepo maintdb get kdebase4-workspace
+mikala
+$ mgarepo maintdb get soprano
+mikala
+$ mgarepo maintdb get qt4
+mikala
+
+(Granted, the maintainers database currently doesn't cater to teams, and I 
+have no background of how the KDE team is working at present).
+
+While we don't have a finalised packager's policy, the conventional meaning of 
+the 'maintainer' is he/she who has final authority over a package. This is 
+implied by some of the existing policies which assign specific 
+responsibilities to the maintainer:
+http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=updates_policy
+http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=bug_policy
+
+While mikala is the maintainer of the packages, and until the packager's 
+policy is completed, common courtesy dictates that you respect the decisions 
+of the person who is impacted more (due to having more responsibilities) by 
+changes you want.
+
+> and i was forced to follow your ideas.
+
+As it should be at persent, based on the output above.
+
+> It would much more productive if we could all use our efforts to
+> develop instead other things.
+
+I note that to someone who hasn't been following everything in detail, that it 
+seems you need to communicate better with, and respect the decisions of, the 
+people whose packages (and contribution) you are affecting.
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+