On 05.04.2007 08:59, Axel Thimm wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:42:06AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 04.04.2007 22:30, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/SteeringCommittee/Voting#head-efb18a3f...
>> Voting topic: Should EPEL carry a repotag? If yes, the technical
>> details will be delegated to the Packaging Committee.
> I'm not going to vote on something where I don't know the technical
> details yet.
Yetserday you didn't even want to have EPEL be authoritative opn that
and wanted to outsource the whole decision to the FPC. Why the change
of heart? The voting above is the political aspect which we as EPEL
need to make.
I still want to "outsource the whole decision to the FPC".
The reasons why I don't vote like this ATM: Currently I would vote "no",
as there is no proper solution for repotags in our spec files ATM
(abusing dist is more them sub-optimal, as dist is optional, and thus we
would have a repotag only in a subset of out packages, which IMHO makes
not much sense). But in real life it's no "no" -- if the Packaging
Committee is fine with having a repotag and presents a solution that
makes it easy to move packages between Fedora and EPEL without
adjustments then I would "abstrain", because I don't care about it
(well, in fact I'm a slightly bit against repotags, as we have a field
in the rpm header that serves the same purpose; having a information in
two places sounds wrong to me, but I'm willing to ignore that).
> I also strongly dislike the kind of voting -- the threads you
> pointed to are much to confusing and have FUD and personal attacks
> in it. Before doing a voting on a controversial topic like this it's
> IMHO really necessary to write a summary about the whole stuff.
I'm sorry, but I can't control the content of this list, it is free
for everyone and a thread can have both helpful and less helpful
content. Dumping the whole discussion because someone tried to
sabotage it by making it a flamewar is a good tool to stall us
forever. [...]
Then please write a summary for those that got annoyed after the first
flamebit and stopped reading the thread further. I suppose many people did.
Summing up seems quite important to me, that why I added it to the
voting rules that I proposed for discussion:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-April/msg00003.html
CU
thl