On 05/22/2017 10:13 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
Hi,
Currently we have the following as a final blocker criterion:
"All applications installed by default in Fedora Workstation must comply with each
MUST and MUST NOT guideline in the Applications and Launchers policy."
That policy is:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Guidelines/Applications_and_Lau...
We recently noticed that we don't have an available blocker criterion to deal with
issues where an application unexpectedly appears in the default install. In particular,
see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449752 which has prompted this. We want
the blivet-gui package maintainers to either create a subpackage for its desktop file, or
otherwise figure something out to prevent blivet-gui from appearing as an application in
our default install. The package maintainers do not want to do this, so we want a blocker
criterion to force a resolution. I see two easy solutions here:
* We could add a new blocker criterion that explicitly says the Workstation WG gets to
decide which applications are installed by default.
* We could add that as a MUST guideline to our applications and launchers policy, since
there is already a blocker criterion that covers that.
I'm planning to do the later and then propose this blivet-gui bug as a blocker. Is
the QA team OK with this course of action? Do you prefer to just add a new criterion?
I can't seem to find the original decision (it's been a few years of meetings
now), but I'm pretty sure that FESCo actually ruled that the WGs have the right
to declare a blocker to their Edition by fiat. So if the Workstation WG feels
that the inclusion of the blivet-gui desktop file is unacceptable for the
Workstation Edition, I *think* they can just declare it so.
CCing the FESCo list for anyone else there to chime in. (We also always have the
option of FESCo making this declaration on your behalf as well.)