On 03/02/2012 04:27 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 03/02/2012 03:21 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> Process looks like this: >> >> * Guidelines updated >> * Someone notices that the package does not follow the guidelines >> (Note that >> this step does not require that the Guidelines were updated... the >> packaging bug could have been missed during review or been introduced >> later). >> * That person files a bug. >> * If the maintainer chooses to ignore the bug or refuse to fix it then >> the >> matter is escalated. >> - In an ideal world, it would probably go to FPC as a "can we >> change the >> guidelines? I have this special case which I don't think you >> intended." >> - In a less ideal world, or in the case where the FPC has already >> made >> clear that they did intend it to apply in that case, it would >> fall on >> FESCo to enforce the decision. >> >> How would fesco enforce the decision? That would depend on the arguments >> being made and the maintainer attitude. For instance, if the maintainer >> said, I simply don't have time to fix this, "enforcement" would probably >> that someone would fix it for them and apply the patch to the spec file. >> >> OTOH, if the maintainer decided that they were going to revert any change >> made to the package to fix the issue, FESCo would have to remove the >> maintainer from the package and tell them they could not be a >> committer on >> that package for a period of time. They might even remove the >> packager from >> the packager group if the maintainer was uncooperative enough.enough. > > Does FPC have any process to measure how many packages are affected by a > single change made to guidelines? > > If so is it hard to implement the process I mentioned which hopefully > should keep packages according to guidelines and up to date? > > JBG You are looking for re-review of packages mentioned many times before. But we have problems to find reviewers for new one, so I don't believe we would find enough people for this. Marcela -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
