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Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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> so unless you are willing to go that far as introducing yourself at the |
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> xfce devel mailing list and accepting the mantle of upstream of them, we |
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> are really stuck at this distribution level patching just like others |
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That makes no sense to me. If you (not you specifically, the generic |
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'you') have patches then you push them upstream. |
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0 distribution patches would only be unrealistic because of some |
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refusal to work with upstream. |
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If you are doing some patching of XFCE then I think there is no |
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difference as far as the code goes between doing it in a gentoo |
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repository and doing it in the upstream repository. |
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I'm both upstream and user (but neither for XFCE). It is really f-ing |
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annoying as upstream to have to go hunting for patches in |
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distributions. If noone else has an interest in a given plugin and |
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you are patching it, then guess what; you are already de facto |
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upstream. |
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If others in other distributions also share the interest in the |
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plugin then there is clearly a community of contributors. |
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An other arrangement than that such community works together in |
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a canonical (not the company) upstream repository seems like fail. |
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//Peter |
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