On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 14:01 -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > Dennis Gregorovic wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 21:08 -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > > > >>We're about ready to announce this list on fedora-devel-list and > >>fedora-extras-list, but before we do we should write a mission > >>statement. I personally intend on keeping list traffic low noise and > >>high relevancy by enforcing strict moderation. Anything straying from > >>the mission statement will have a single warning, then second infraction > >>moderate bit set. > >> > >>Some ideas for the mission statement: > >> > >>* Agreement and documentation of perl packaging standards > >>* Cleanup and maintenance of Core and Extras perl packages > >>* Discussion of perl package development issues > >>* Progressive packaging of CPAN toward Extras > >> > >>Anything we're missing? > > > > > > Those all sound good. Also, we may want to define a policy for which > > Perl packages are allowed into Extras. (for example, do they have to be > > in CPAN first?) > > Specifics like that don't belong in the mission statement, but a more > detailed document elsewhere that expands on the mission statement. > > Another specific would be fixing RPM's perl dep finder to be smarter by > default. Like never pull in Win32, never parse %doc or example(s) dirs, > etc. That would eliminate the majority of cases where ugly manual > Requires filtering is needed, but not all. Agreed. I wasn't thinking clearly when making those comments. [snip]
