Summary/Minutes from today's FESCO meeting (2011-12-12 at 1800 UTC)

Jussi Lehtola jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org
Tue Dec 13 06:25:12 UTC 2011


On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:06:44 +0100
Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 22:52 +0200, Jussi Lehtola wrote: 
> > On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:34:12 +0100
> > Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > What about running a 'file' command on the stuff and if the output
> > > contains 'text' then allow upload only with some kind of --force
> > > option?
> > 
> > And what about separately shipped license files, documentation and
> > so on?
> > 
> > Not a valid option.
> 
> What's wrong with using --force option for such files? These are not
> that common so that should not be much hassle. Also if they are small
> I do not see any reason why not to put them directly into the git
> repository.
> 
> Or maybe the condition for need of the force flag could be modified to
> not require it for files larger than some size (for example 100kBytes)
> even if 'file' outputs that they are a text files.

Gah.. Nothing, obviously. Somehow I must have skipped the --force part.
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Jussi Lehtola
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