On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Christopher Aillon <caillon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But, I'll re-iterate what Jan told you earlier in the thread that we've > been working on it with upstream and have been for a while, and it's a > HUGE undertaking. We've already made significant progress and have > gotten quite a bit of the changes needed merged upstream already. See > moz bug 377319 for the details. And this is exactly why I personally find its okay to have the exceptional status of thunderbird packaging. There's observable progress towards fixing the problems that requires the exceptional status. I also think its perfectly fine for FESCO to review exceptional situations on a timely basis. Granting exceptions to our packaging policy shouldn't be done lightly..but it can also be beneficial when there is recognition that the problem is significant and is going to take some collaboration between Fedora developers and upstream to solve. If there is a demonstrable commitment to untangling the underlying problem..and there is observable progress..then renewing exceptional status on review is reasonable to me personally and I would hope reasonable for FESCO members. -jef -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
