On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 00:33 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > 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 If bugs are closed incorrectly they should be reopened - the reporter should have done that. The fact that Fedora contributors have bug rights means that this could happen with any packager/contributor. Paul
