Re: Subversion 1.1.3 released.

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 11:16:12PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> They don't track every piece of software they include in the distro, so if
> a user doesn't let them know that a new version is available, they just
> don't notice. By plugging it into their tracker, it gets into the queue of
> things to do.

That still seems really silly IMHO.

> Consumers who buy the packaged distro expect to log any problems with it,
> including all repackaged 3rd party packages, with the distro vendor. Not
> all packages have the kind of upstream support that Subversion has, and
> some actively avoid maintaining old versions, leaving that to the distro
> vendor. (One such package was dropped from the RH list with Fedora Core 2
> for just that reason.)
>
> The fact that no upstream bugs have made it into RH's tracker suggests that
> Subversion users are more savvy of the upstream source (ie. you) than users
> of most packages.

That's fine. But if they are upstream bugs whoever is the maintainer of
the package for RedHat should be reporting them to us. Not just letting
them sit around in their issue tracker.

Ultimately, someone at RedHat who builds the package should have a
"relationship" with us. As far as I know Joe Orton is responsible for
the package and he's a committer here. So I'd like to think he does
that stuff for us.

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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