On Monday 18 May 2009 13:53:41 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Thursday, 14 May 2009 at 15:01, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > On Saturday, 09 May 2009 at 19:24, Jon Stanley wrote: > [...] > > > Rel-eng brought a proposal during the open floor to allow the > > > inclusion of packages in a special tag (something like dist-f12-maven) > > > in preparation for the maven upgrade that had yet to be through a > > > formal package review. These packages are not yet in a state suitable > > > for inclusion in Fedora, and the Java team would prefer to get them > > > functional prior to cleaning up the packaging. FESCo approved this > > > propsal, with the caveat that the packages have to go through a > > > mini-review prior to inclusiion in this tag and therefore being used > > > in buildroots. This mini-review will be defined by FPC, and will > > > include things such as checking for lack of binaries, and legal > > > concerns. > > > > As a packager and a member of the FPC, I think it is a very bad idea to let > > packages in without proper review. I'd like to hear the very convincing > > arguments which I expect were presented directly to some FESCo members > > but were not included in the IRC meeting log for why this was allowed and > > why the packages in question (which ones, exactly?) couldn't go through > > the usual hoops like all new packages. > > I don't see why the Java team (who, exactly?) or anyone else should > > be allowed to import packages into Fedora CVS without proper review. > > Four days have passed and my questions above are still unanswered. > Is FESCo trying to ignore the issues raised? Not intentionally, so far as I know. I missed the meeting in question myself though, so I missed out on the convincing arguments too... Can we perhaps revisit the topic in this week's meeting? -- Jarod Wilson jarod@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
