On 08/01/2009 02:17 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
This is part of the problem. Perhaps the developers don't want
to be bothered
with setting up a project hosting facility for something they to-date have
been releasing in a manner they find sufficient.
This is a bit of circular logic. They find it sufficient because the
packaging guidelines explicitly added a exception to accommodate this.
Otherwise they would have bothered to do so.
I don't see why they should
be forced to just to be part of Fedora.
Again, they are not random developers. They are part of Fedora Project.
If we want to encourage and recommend that, great! But saying
it's required
when they are providing sufficient means of getting the source to the package
(in a Fedora perferred form even!) is a bit odd to me.
So a special exception doesn't sound at all? Do you think that is
encouraging them to setup a proper project hosting?
No. That is part of the problem with your proposal. You have
targetted RH
or Fedora packages that do this. If some other package only distributes via
SRPM (or .deb, or ebuild), they aren't required to comply. Why force these
RH/Fedora packages to do something that we don't force other packages to?
I am not the one targeting Red Hat or Fedora packages.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#We_are_Upstream
They were targeted in the exception which I am asking FESCo to drop.
Rahul