Release Engineering Meeting Recap from Monday 16-APR-07

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 10:40 -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 11:26 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:42 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 11:48:27 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > >> Are we not rebuilding the packages with "fc6" names in Fedora 7? I did
> > > >> ask FESCo but afaik no final decision was made. What about packages that
> > > >> dist tags in the future releases?
> > > > 
> > > > No.  Rebuilding just to change dist tags is a completely silly operation. 
> > > 
> > > I think we just disagree on that. The value of rebuilding is more than 
> > > just changing the dist tag. The fear against is exactly the reason why 
> > > we should be doing it in the first place. Ensuring that they don't 
> > > "accidentally" get new features during a security update after the 
> > > release is a measure of quality.
> > > 
> > >   Our
> > > > distribution releases do inherit from previous releases, the dist tag just 
> > > > makes that point visually.
> > > 
> > > So one might have "fc6" packages in Fedora 8 and "fc7" packages on 
> > > Fedora 10 too? You don't think that's "silly"?  Btw did FESCo even 
> > > discuss this at all?
> > 
> > It was not discussed last week.  I will explicitly add it to the agenda
> > this week.
> 
> Do we want to address this again?  We've said for a while now that we
> were not planning on doing a mass rebuild for this release.
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SteeringCommittee/Meeting-20070301

That was before the disttag discussion started IIRC.  Rahul has asked a
few times for FESCo to discuss this again.  I added it to the agenda and
we should take a quick vote on it.

josh