Hey all, I'm trying to smooth out the process of getting changes and clarifications to the guidelines to make the Core Review process go quicker and easier. Here's what I'd like to see: if a reviewer and packager are at an impasse WRT following or not following some aspect of the Guidelines, ping me to look at it. I'll read the issue and let people know if the Guidelines cover the case and if so, whether the packager or the reviewer is currently covered. If the other party thinks the Guidelines should be changed I'll work with them to draft a policy change and then bring it up for discussion with the Packaging Committee. Remember that the burden of proof will be on the person wanting to make the changes to the Guidelines so whoever wants to go this route needs to help me provide convincing arguments as to why the policy should be changed. There's four basic ways that the Guidelines can be changed: 1) The present guideline should not apply to a package because it is a special case. We can make an exception list for these packages. 2) The present guideline poses special problems for implementation with this package at this time. We can make an exception list along with the requirements for the exception to go away. 3) The present guideline does not work for a large number of packages. We remove the guideline. 4) The present guideline does not work for a large number of packages. Since the guidelines do work for a large percentage of packages, we'll clarify wording or add text to take the new issues into account. I'm hoping to minimize the use of #1 as much as possible. #3 will probably have a hard time passing through the committee on short notice. So for the most part I'll be working with you to draft changes of type #2 or #4. The Guideline discussions will take place on #fedora-packaging on freenode and the fedora-packaging redhat.com mailing list. Thing that are controversial will probably be decided on at one of the weekly packaging meetings while those that have wide packaging committee acceptance will be voted on in the mailing list. Here's my contact info: abadger1999 on irc.freenode.net a.badger gmail.com for email. Please include the text: "[Packaging Guideline]" in the subject so I don't miss it in my deluge of email. toshio tiki-lounge.com to add me to a bugzilla ticket If there's too many requests to have guideline reviews I'll try to get others to help but for now it'll just be me. Thanks, -Toshio
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
-- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers
-- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
