Perhaps creating a new group in comps.xml would be appropriate? I'll let you judge if that in itself would qualify as new feature, but it will be noticeable to people that care - academics mostly. But RHEL sell ok in academia, so it should be worth doing :) On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Jarod Wilson <jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 08 August 2008 09:30:28 Casey Dahlin wrote: >> Jarod Wilson wrote: >> > On Thursday 07 August 2008 17:18:21 David A. Wheeler wrote: >> >> I've developed info on a new feature of Fedora 10, aka "Provers": >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Provers >> >> Basically, I and others have packaged some key >> >> provers / solvers / formal methods tools. >> > >> > As I understand it, this is primarily just a collection of new packages >> > being added to Fedora, no? If so, and if you ask me, this really doesn't >> > meet the criteria for a Feature. Its just new packages that are all >> > targeted at a specific area of use. >> >> And what criteria are those? I don't think this is the first feature >> that has been mostly a packaging affair. Last I checked our definition >> of feature was "something worth mentioning in the release notes." > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Is_this_a_feature > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Definitions > > I suppose perhaps this falls under "noteworthy enough to call out in the > release notes", depending on who you ask. I'm still not sold yet. > > On Friday 08 August 2008 mumble, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >> [...] just saying Fedora has a collection of provers isn't a >> Feature. But saying, in Fedora 10 we've made an effort to include foo, >> bar, baz important provers for Target Audience so they can find all the >> tools they need to do X Type of Work. Similarly, "We've done work so >> that foo and bar can import and export the same file format", or other >> work to show how we're making the user experience better would make a >> stronger case for a feature. > > Like Toshio suggests here, sell me on the idea. Right now, all I see is a > group of new packages that are similar in nature. > > -- > Jarod Wilson > jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx > > > -- > 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
