2008/6/4 Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Michael Wiktowy > <michael.wiktowy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> You could argue about the utility of such a tool and what programming >> language/libraries it uses (and I would agree with you for what its >> worth) but is that really relevant to reviewing it for acceptance into >> Extras? >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines doesn't say >> anything about not reinventing the wheel and if it did we wouldn't >> have a lot of things people feel pretty passionately about (redundant >> desktop environments, search tools, editors ... you name the flamewar) >> and Fedora would be a pretty stagnant distro. > > We have yet to come to a point where we make a requirement on value. > > I would however state that I would very much like to see this tool > have its own upstream project space hosted somewhere, with a clear > upstream source release, that could be used beyond Fedora. I don't > need to see Suse packages..but if this is meant to be a generally > useful tool for rpm distributions..it should be handled that way as an > upstream project. If this is meant to be Fedora specific, well then I > think we might have a stronger case to be made that Fedora specific > tools should integrate well with the existing direction. > > Having a package hosted out of fedora people is probably not a good > idea. In fact its probably something we should forbid. There's a > big difference between setting up a project at fedora hosted and > throwing up a tarball on your fedora people space. *hint* *hint* rpm -qi mkinitrd *hint* *hint* you might notice the missing url line :) kind regards, Rudolf Kastl > > -jef > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
