Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2014-11-19)

[Tomas Hozza]

On 11/20/2014 08:05 AM, Till Maas wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 03:06:11PM -0500, Tomas Mraz wrote:
>
> > * #1368 How to deal with F21 broken dependencies  (t8m, 19:08:56)
> >   * AGREED: FESCo agrees to dropping the packages with broken
> >     dependencies listed in #1368 from both F21 and rawhide (+7, -0, 0:0)
> >     (t8m, 19:25:56)
>
> I retired the packages now. To make sure the final repo does not
> contain any packages with broken dependencies, the Freeze Exception
> process needs to be used to get packages from updates-testing that do
> not contain broken dependencies into the stable repo:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
>
> >   * AGREED: We will do the broken deps cleanup on Final Freeze from now
> >     on in the future Fedora releases (+8, -0, 0:0)  (t8m, 19:30:41)
> >   * There will be warning sent to the affected maintainers at least 3
> >     weeks in advance  (t8m, 19:31:36)
>
> What happens with packages that get broken after the warning but before
> the Final Freeze?
>
> Regards
> Till
>
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but all broken packages
should be cleaned up after the Final Freeze. However we could
send one more "up-to-date" reminder after the Freeze.

Regards,
Tomas