[fab] Packaging Committee/FESCo communication

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 17:42 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 19:20 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 17:04 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > 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?
> 
> I think it will work fine.  Since the packaging committee meets just
> before FESCo on Thursdays, it works especially well for us.  I'll add an
> agenda item to the FESCo weekly meetings: Packaging Committee Report and
> Discussion, so some time is allocated to discussing these policies as
> they are made.

Excellent.  Thanks Toshio.

josh