On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 02:28:57PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > 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. This is the sanest answer I've heard thus far. If you want a wiki page to display or track something like this, create it. If others feel it's useful, they will help. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
