Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Mar 12 17:26:44 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 08:58 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 12 Mar 2008 11:42:22 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
> >  If you have suggestions for the summary format, we can consider them
> >  at the next meeting.

Textform: "All package names must be encoded in 7-bit ASCII chars".

> I've a couple of suggestions for the packaging committee to consider
> in an effort to prevent this sort of flame damage in the future.


> For items that are not on your committee's agenda for discussion, but
> come up during the meeting that as a group you don't feel are ready
> for a vote.... your committee might think about voting to table the
> issue until a formal proposal/community discussion is in place instead
> of voting yes/no.
This already had happened - 2 weeks ago.

We had discussed this on the packaging list - Unfortunately with little
results.

>    You then list the item as tabled and needing a
> formal proposal and community discussion period in your summary. Such
> summary items might produce a list discussion with much smaller
> pitchforks and much cooler torches.
> 
> You might even consider having a committee policy that any item that
> comes up in discussion that can't be unanimously agreed on by the end
> of that meeting automatically gets tabled until a formal, community
> vetted proposal gets put forward on a subsequent meeting agenda where
> you can do a formal vote.
-1

Your proposal equals closing down FPC, because hardly any decision in
FPC is unanimous.

Ralf





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