[fab] Packaging Committee/FESCo communication

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Fri Jul 7 00:20:13 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 17:04 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 15:46 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > All I'm asking for is time for the reps from various parties to discuss
> > the issues with the groups the represent and a mechanism for them to be
> > able to do that.
> 
> This sounds pretty sane to me, really.  For all that spot is
> all-knowing, he'll occasionally miss _something_.  To try for a proposal
> 
> The results of policy decisions from the Fedora Packaging Committee now
> affect a number of different constituents within Fedora.  While there
> are representatives from those different constituents on FPC, it's not
> fair to assume that one person knows everything.  Therefore, the
> proposal is to have changes to packaging policy have a week[1] for
> review from impacted groups before they are "set in stone"[2].  Also,
> the constituents involved in FESCO, RH, etc are accountable for getting
> the changes before their respective groups for review.

Yes, exactly.  I was actually getting ready to type up something
identical to this :).

Does anyone have any problems with this?

josh




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