On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:58:10AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 19:49 +0300, Muayyad AlSadi wrote: >> > You're just transferring the work. In order to *generate* the list of >> > tens of packages to make _your_ life easier, someone else has to inspect >> > the tens of thousands of packages. >> and the someone else you refer to is fedora censorship board! >> no no like that, >> I asked for a unified place to put those things in the wiki >> if the maintainer decided that he does not want to add his package to >> the list we are not going to shoot him. > >If all you want is a page on the Wiki for you and notional other people >who are interested in excluding certain packages from their spins or >whatever to co-ordinate on listing which packages might be an issue, >then I don't think anyone would really object to that - all along we've >been saying that it's fine for you to include or exclude whatever you >like from your own spin on whatever grounds you choose, and this would >just be a bit of organization to help you with that. I certainly >wouldn't object to it. > >However, you haven't proposed it as that; you seem to have proposed it >as a packaging guideline. All packagers are supposed to respect >packaging guidelines (we only don't call them 'rules' because we're >trying to be all happy-clappy). If you really want this to be something >that packagers don't have to worry about unless they actually care about >it, then it shouldn't be a packaging guideline. You should just create >it as a page on the Wiki with no official status in any procedure. I >don't believe you need anyone's permission to do that, you can just go >ahead and do it. I will take blame for the packaging guideline. I suggested one be written based on what seemed to be a request to have this driven automatically for all packages. If this is just a volunteer-only, totally optional wiki page then I also see no problem. If this is something to be mandated, then the guideline would be necessary. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
