On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:28:50AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: >Josh Boyer (jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx) said: >> >I'm not sure this scales across 5000 packages. So it would be good >> >to have at least *something* in the guidelines. >> >> You're assuming that all 5000 packages need fixing. I doubt that's >> the case. > >No, but it's not something you can easily automate (unlike >FTBFS, or broken deps.) > >> Also, the bugs need to be filed either way. So the scaling argument >> still applies and adding a guideline for this is really just unneeded >> work... > >If you get it fixed in the guidelines and at the review point, you >eliminate having to scan & file all those bugs later - always fix >issues as early as possible. The guidelines already say 'brief'. Quantifying what that means is all that a new guideline would be doing. And you're also assuming that packages strictly adhere to the guidelines after they are reviewed, but that is a whole different can of worms. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
