Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> writes: >> I am okay with this being a general principle also. If there is >> EXTREME effort required to get something compiled on sol9, but it's an >> easy compile on sol10, then the sol9 version can be somewhat orphaned. >> My sticking point, is that a maintainer should at least put in *some* >> effort to compile on sol9, and attempt some amount of patching. And if >> they get stuck or out of their depth, they should request help. >> "I cant get it to work" is not the same thing as "it cant be >> done"[without extreme effort]. Noone is an expert in everything. Let's >> work together! > > Yes, that's the point. But: If they request help and nobody is > interested in doing the extra work it should be ok to release > the built packages.
The proposition made at the summer camp was: - to let the maintainer valuate the effort and decide if he has the resources to accomplish the packaging for Solaris 10 and/or Solaris 9; nobody else can judge his perception of difficulty and the availability of time for that. - if the maintainers *decides* that the effort is to important, he can orphan the package on Solaris 9; this bring us to a situation when somebody can take up the orphaned package and have 2 different maintainers -- Peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
