RFC: Feature process improvements

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 12/01/2012 02:26 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 12:21 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 05:42:15AM -0500, Marcela Maslanova wrote:
>>>> I think we do need more clarity on "system-wide/defaults changing
>>>> features or critical path components". What's the threshold for
>>>> defaults? (LVM, for a specific example.) What's the threshold for a
>>>> change to a critical path component?
>>> We were discussing even critpaths, but currently is in critical path
>>> almost everything.
>>
>> If true, I think that asking for clarity on the thresholds is even more
>> important. If almost everything really is on the critical path, we need to
>> either a) find a way to reduce that or b) recognize it and treat features
>> more carefully.
>
> It's not really true, no, though it can seem that way.
>
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/lists/critpath?tg_format=plain&collctn_list=f18 is the current F18 critpath list. It's 583 packages; quite big, but a long way from 'almost everything'.
>
That's short. I thought KDE and GNOME will be bigger, but there are only 
the essential packages. I guess critpaths as system-wide features might 
be doable.

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Marcela Mašláňová
BaseOS team Brno