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--- Comment #13 from Mathieu Bridon <[email protected]> 2011-02-10 
12:49:26 EST ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> Ralf's discourse may be bereft of tact, but the point remains that he's
> concerned about statements such as "I only am interested in el6."  As am I,
> honestly.

Perhaps I didn't chose my words carefully enough though, please put that on
account of me not being a native english speaker and allow me to rephrase:

I only depend on this package being in EPEL6, so I have a particular interest
for this branch.

In other words, that is a positive statement about the EPEL6 branch, it is not
a negative statement about the Fedora ones.

I will take care of this packages in all the branches it has been pushed to,
but as a maintainer, I have always thought I had the right to decide in which
branch I would push my package.

> EPEL is supposed to be an easy way to get Fedora packages on RHEL,
> but statements such at that make it seem that Fedora is merely an annoyance
> required to get things into EPEL.

That's not the case.

In the past I have only ever contributed to Fedora, since I have never needed
anything in EPEL. But if someone had asked me to push one of my packages to
EPEL (and if I had the required amount of time to take care of it afterwards),
then I would have.

This time, it is the other way around: I only need this package in EPEL6, but I
will take care of it in Fedora as well.

Actually, if Ralf's (or anyone else's for that matter) initial comment had been
« I'd like to see this package in Fedora 14 as well, and will help you maintain
it in this branch », then I would have asked for it and set him as
co-maintainer. I would even have made the initial builds and update requests,
since I was doing all that for Rawhide and EPEL6 anyway, and we'd have
coordinated the next builds/updates, as is certainly the case for any package
maintained by more than one person.

But you'll agree that it would have been a very different request from « I
don't consider it reasonable », which (at least to me) sounds more like « you
will do all the work because I say so ».

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