On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:51:06AM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > Hi, > > Since there is already NodeJs in Fedora, shouldn't be the JavaScript > exception [1] revisited? There are JavaScript libraries reviews, such > as CofeeScript [2], already ongoing. However, there is also it copy > of CoffeeScript in rubygem-coffee-script-source. I know I am going to > make my life harder, on the other hand, this is just system library > and should not be duplicated. > The exception shouldn't need revisiting (things that run on NodeJS should not be covered by the exception under the current guidelines) "At this time JavaScript intended to be served to a web browser on another computer is specifically exempted from this but this will likely change in the future." <= that exception does not cover JavaScript that runs on the local computer. However, we do need some JavaScript packaging Guidelines. There have been times (Ruby, java, maybe ocaml... I can't remember) when we didn't allow package reviews to continue until the packaging guidelines for them were worked out. This may be another case where that should be done. The alternative is that a lot of things in the package spec files will need to be changed after guidelines are approved specifically because they are failing to do things that are needed for the guidelines (as opposed to most guidelines where changes are adopted as the packages are updated for other things). sgallagh, would you have an interest in taking guidelines drafting upon yourself? It's a big task but since you've taken on Nodejs, you likely are used to big tasks :-) -Toshio > > > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Duplication_of_system_libraries > [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732216
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