This topic was discussed on the meeting we had on Tuesday 20th of May. There was a general consensus on following the packaging guidelines, where git merge is preferred way (if possible) over use of git cherry-pick. We also agreed on making a document with some guidelines and recommendations available for everyone outside Red Hat as currently these guidelines and rules have been available only to Red Hat people as part of the internal "Fedora Packaging Duties" document.

I will work with @tpopela on either making the whole document public or at least part of it so everyone can contribute and read the guidelines.

As noted in the meeting, it would be good if any new docs are added to the existing ones: read online, source.

Workstation WG probably isn't a good place to document packaging. We have this rule documented in Red Hat desktop team's documentation for how to handle packager duty. I think most of this documentation could be made public, but since duty packagers are Red Hat employees, this is probably good enough for now.

This issue has been migrated to Fedora Forge:
https://forge.fedoraproject.org/workstation/tickets/issues/479

Please continue any further discussion there.