On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:47:17 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > One thing we're going to introduce for FC6 and later releases is > package review of all new packages intended for Fedora Core. > > We're basing this off of the Extras Review process. > > Some quick FAQs before we go completely live: > > - Why? > > Peer review is good. Increasing quality by catching packaging > errors before they go live is better.. Educating packagers so > that packaging errors aren't repeated is even better than that. It's really difficult to comment on this before it's seen in action. A few questions: Will it avoid incidents like this? http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187714 Do Core package maintainers accept the current FE packaging guidelines? Or will reviews result in lengthy discussions about personal preferences? > The URL will be: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora%20Core&format=core-review > Where's the tracker bug? Will bugzilla comments be posted to a mailing-list?
