"KH" == Karsten Hopp writes:
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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.
KH> +1, please don't get discouraged when FESCo rejects a feature KH> proposal. KH> Rejecting something as a feature doesn't mean that the package KH> isn't accepted into fedora. It just means that it doesn't met the KH> requirements described in KH> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Definitions#Features.
Given FESCo's decision on this feature, I wonder how the Bioconductor feature . which packages a set of bioinformatics R add-on packages would fare:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Bioconductor
It's similar in spirit to Fedora Electronic Lab, although I don't have any actual data, I suspect a slightly larger target audience than Provers. I am helping Pierre-Yves (aka pingou) with this feature.
Alex