-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/15/2013 12:43 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:51:06AM +0100, V￭t 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 :-) > This is going to require a good bit of work and I'm not as familiar with how this is organized as I would like to be. I think I may see if I can get a brainstorming session going at FUDCon this week. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlD2sCAACgkQeiVVYja6o6PsWwCdHd9vcAcgp1B6UzHiZL4zG0WS 52kAn27+SsIoZZ9loyoyu4P2X1afnUxT =sA/v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
