On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Matthew Miller >> <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 02:09:21PM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: >> >> > That sounds good. Maybe recast those ideas as three levels? >> >> > - Critical Path Feature >> >> > - Other Enhancement Feature >> >> > - New Leaf Feature >> >> We were thinking with a few folks more about "Self contained >> >> feature" >> >> but yeah, there's a lack of real definition. >> > >> > I think "Leaf" is better than "Self contained", since it's unlikely >> > for the >> > feature to have zero outside dependencies. I think it'd be fine for >> > such a >> > feature to rely on small changes to existing packages (version >> > updates, >> > say). >> >> I'd argue that this isn't a "feature" ... otherwise we could >> advertise >> every version upgrade as feature. >> If it does not affect a large amount of users it is simply a version >> upgrade not a "fedora feature". > > The question is - how do you know if it affects large amount of users, > it's not an important one, without letting people know, there's such > feature? Does a lot of other packages depend on it? -> Likely affects a lot of users. Is it installed by default or a commonly used application / package ? -> Likely affects a lot of users. Is it a new package that isn't intended to be installed by default? -> Probably does not affects a lot of users. ... etc. So while there is no 100% accurate definition applying some common sense helps here. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
