Re: Java packages, guidelines, ...

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 01:58 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> How do you decide what needs a guideline? Because someone writes up a draft? So 
> if I write a draft guideline for, say, GNOME packages, and then let it bitrot, 
> will you block all GNOME packages until someone finalizes my broken guideline? 
> This would be a very broken process and allow anyone to sabotage Fedora just by 
> coming up with useless "draft guidelines".
> 
> We have general guidelines, we apply these for all new packages where no 
> specific one exists, I don't see why the mere existence of a draft guideline 
> would suddenly change that.

In this case we need specific Java guidelines because without them,
these packages would /fail/ the general guidelines.  That's what
specific guidelines often end up being, pre-approved exceptions to
general guidelines.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part

-- 
fedora-devel-list mailing list
fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]
  Powered by Linux