Plan for tomorrows (20080910) FESCO meeting

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Wednesday 10 September 2008 09:08:03 am Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:02:24PM +0200, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
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> >On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:43:36 -0400, you wrote:
> >>I think we need to talk about the make force-tag change.  It was simply
> >>done, with no discussion by rel-eng or FESCo.
> >
> >I thank ther is a simple reason for removing this feature.
> >
> >'make force-tag allow you to build serveral releases of you
> >package with the same release number, so you can determinate
> >which content in the cvs belongs to a specific build in koji.
> >
> >This breaks the rules in the fedora project to increase the
> >release number for every build.
> >
> >This may the reason to remove this feature so you don't make the
> >people to easy to move tags in the cvs repository.
>
> Sure.  I understand that.  It was still done without any discussion or
> mention to FESCo or rel-eng.  It impacts developers (as should be apparent
> from the already long thread on it) and changes like that should at least
> get approval before being done.
>
> So, even if FESCo retro-actively approves the change, I'd like to at least
> try to actually follow some semblance of process here.
>
> josh
it was quietly added, 16 months ago, because someone inside Red Hat complained 
that fedoras makefile.common was different to Red Hat's  it should have never 
been added in the first place.

Dennis