FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-03-20

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Mar 21 08:46:33 UTC 2008


Patrice Dumas <pertusus <at> free.fr> writes:
> I don't really get it. There are many people in favor of blocking
> packages until a guideline is done (at least I am, until it becomes
> easier to force a packager to fix his package post import), they will 
> report to FESCO when the packaging of a kind of packages is a mess (as 
> it was for java packages).

If they notice... Not all technologies are as prominent as Java.

> Part of fedora objective is also best quality in packaging. I don't know
> if it is written somewhere, though.

But there's a fine line to walk there: having a perfectly-packaged kernel 1.0 
is completely useless. We can't sacrifice being current entirely in the name of 
packaging quality.

        Kevin Kofler




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