On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Liam < wrote:

In not sure this would constitute a "significant " change, but assuming it were, can you point to where this decision has been formally stated? I'm certainly aware that Fedora is upstream first, but I believe we carry patches in cases where we have to.

The general guidance is to avoid this as much as possible

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Staying_close_to_upstream_projects

That may not be appropriate in this particular case but I think the needs of the Fedora project have to come before upstream.

Divergence may not be necessary and is always a maintenance burden. So you work primarily in the space of upstream projects for core development and focus within Fedora should be as a point of integration and projects/infrastructure that help with that.

Rahul