Re: Remove "EE APIs" section from guidelines?

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michal Srb" <msrb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 9:57:55 AM
> Subject:  Remove "EE APIs" section from guidelines?
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I would like to propose a small change to our Java packaging guidelines.
> The change is simple: remove whole "Packaging and using EE APIs" section
> [1]. As far as I can tell, there is currently no Java package fully
> conforming with this section in Fedora. I also think that from
> maintenance perspective, it's better not to have our hands tied with
> guidelines (in such less important matters), but to be able act
> accordingly to current situation in Fedora. The matter of which package
> should provide which EE API can be discussed here on java-devel ML. We
> can easily reevaluate our decision before every Fedora release, without
> need to change the guidelines every time.
> 
> Please let me know what you think of this proposal. We can arrange
> java-sig IRC meeting, or we can discuss and vote here. I personally
> prefer the latter option.

Huge +1000 from me.
This doesn't belong to the guidelines to say what the defaults will be. Defaults should be the packages that there is/are active maintainer(s). It doesn't make sense to update the guidelines for such changes.


Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

> 
> Thanks,
> Michal
> 
> [1]:
> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AMsrb%2FJavaPackagingDraft&diff=406064&oldid=406063
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