Too many lords, not enough stewards
Too many lords, not enough stewards
Posted Feb 4, 2018 21:26 UTC (Sun) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)In reply to: Too many lords, not enough stewards by jani
Parent article: Too many lords, not enough stewards
> Contrast this with, say, hardware vendors or individual developers forking upstream to bypass the maintainer structure, and trying to convince the above mentioned downstreams to carry their out-of-tree patches to deliver to the end users.
It is not unheard of for a hardware vendor to partner with an distro to work on getting hardware support upstream - each side brings different skills for mutual benefit. They work together on a fork when circumstances prevent them from working together upstream.
If an individual developer is having trouble getting a patch upstream, it may make perfect sense to submit a bug report/feature-request to their favourite distro and say "I have a bug, I have a fix, I cannot git it upstream, could you take it directly?". This distro maintainer might do that, or might help get it upstream, or might do both.
This is all part of "routing around".
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