On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:09:12PM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: >Bill, I _do_ understand that my feature has been dropped because it >is/was not testable and it breaks the string freeze, but I can not >accept the way _how_ this decision was made. Let me quote the complete >discussion about LXDE: > >> bpepple: Feature: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LXDE >> nirik: for lxde, sadly 2 packages are still in review... so I think it needs to go to 11 (ha ha). >> dgilmore: so not testable >> bpepple: nirik: do we know what's holding up those 2 reviews? >> nirik: unless those packages aren't critical for testing, but I think they are. >> nirik: bpepple: I glanced at them and there was a lot of discussion about what should be a subpackage, etc. >> wwoods: none of the LXDE packages are even built, AFAICT >> nirik: wwoods: some are, but thats because they were already in... like openbox is the windowmanager. >> notting: well, if they try and add the comps group now, they'll be breaking the string freeze >> nirik: yeah, so I think this should move back to next release... if they get it sooner great, we can trumpet it in 11 >> bpepple: nirik: +1 >> notting: +1 >> bpepple: anyone disagree with pushing LXDE, otherwise we can move on. > >Obviously the only one who was at least a little informed is nirik, he's >also the only one who apologized for "the lack of communication" in a >conversation we had yesterday. But nirik is wrong too: Those LXDE >packages that are already in Fedora are not there because they have been >forever but because they were part of my feature (lxtask, lxterminal, >lxlauncher, ...). > >So the decision was made under the assumption that _none_ of the LXDE >packages has ever passed a review. How can somebody who has read the >feature page claim that? Why did nobody answer him back? The decision was made under the _fact_ that the Feature lacked packages that had not passed review. If they aren't all there, it can't be tested by Beta. It's really that simple. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
