On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:51 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Josh Boyer <jwboyer <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> Yes. It was decided to leave the removal, and to also remove TAG_OPTS=-F. > > > > Yet another abuse of power by FESCo. Why can't FESCo listen to the many > > developers who objected to the removal here, including developers like Dave > > Jones and Rex Dieter who are experienced Fedora packagers and do much of the > > actual packaging work in Fedora (Dave Jones is the primary maintainer of the > > kernel, Rex Dieter is #4 in number of builds per packager)? Why can't the > > decision be left to the people who are actually affected by the change, i.e. > > the packagers? FESCo is supposed to represent the interests of the packagers > > (that's what they're elected for), not their own, too bad they actually do the > > latter. > > Basically because the only argument for keeping "make force-tag" > wasn't a technical one. There's a need to ensure that a tag points to > the exact source that was used to build a package. ... iff a built run succeeds and the package has been released". > Disallowing > force-tag is the easiest way to do that. I do not agree with this. It's a naive approach rending contributing to Fedora furtherly difficult. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
