On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 08:29:12PM -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
- FESCo voted against making the Prover(1) a feature, since they felt it
didn't meet the criteria(2) of being a new feature. Note: This isn't to say that this isn't a good thing, but they felt the target audience was fairly limited. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Provers 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Definitions
It's very disappointing that this isn't considered a feature, largely (so it seems from the IRC log) because the target audience is considered "very limited".
Although provers are used only by a few experts to check that software is correct, the benefits of using formally checked software (functions, data structures, libraries, etc.) accrue to all users of that software.
I hope that David & others working on this don't get discouraged and this work continues, perhaps as a Fedora SIG.
Rich.