----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Nottingham" <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 5:59:29 PM Subject: Re: Mass changes to packaging Jason L Tibbitts III (tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx) said: > >>>>> "RWMJ" == Richard W M Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > RWMJ> I just received about a dozen bugs like this: > > Yep, someone has taken it upon themselves to mass-file a bunch of > unnecessary tickets. > > When FPC makes guidelines changes, they aren't generally accompanied by > some mandate that existing packages be changed. In fact, I can't think > of a time when a change was made retroactive. If there was something > that had to change in a bunch of packages, we'd at least try to organize > a labor pool to get that done without having to endlessly bug every > package maintainer. This stems from a request of mine, and is therefore my fault.. Presets are a valuable new feature for both distribution constructors and administrators - rather than having a single hardcoded policy *in the packages* about what starts and doesn't start (and requires rebuilding to fix), presets allow an easy way for: - administrators - provisioners - spin maintainers to easily define what should & shouldn't be running for their install. However, it will take some work to get that done across the repository of packages, so I requested that Vaclav, Lukas, Michal, and any others look into what is needed to do this work in the repository. I had intended for them to provide patches and an offer to commit, but I didn't communicate that clearly to them. Apologies to those worried by these requests, and to Vaclav, Lukas, and Michal for anything that comes their way. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Sorry for this mess. After a discussion, we have decided, that the best way would be to create bugs for every packages and then helping creating patches for specfiles. We want to give maintainers possibility to fix this on their own and because we want this change in all packages, creating bug seemed as a better option then spamming devel-list. Lukas -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
