Heads Up: FESCo is considering to block packages providing sysvinit services without systemd unit

[Tomas Mraz]

On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 10:35 -0900, Jef Spaleta wrote: 
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Eventual blocking of the packages that violate this Fedora packaging
> > rule was not yet definitively decided upon, but we agreed that the
> > Fedora package maintainers should be warned that such blocking might
> > happen before the Fedora 17 Alpha release.
> 
> 
> Two questions,
> 
> 1) Do we have an accurate list of the packages in this category. And
> more importantly how many of these have closed CLAs in the packaging
> trees  which would prevent me as a good Samaritan from digging in and
> committing a service file into the rawhide branch. The closed CLA
> situations are going to be the touchiest, so lets not get blindsided
> by those in the 11th hour.

No, we do not have the list. Yet? Please add the question to the ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/687

> 
> 2) And it would be very good if there was a clearly stated mandate
> from FESCO that gave proven-packagers expressed authority to deal with
> this on a case by case basis once this becomes a ticking clock
> situation.

I think the proven-packagers had this mandate already during the F16
development and this mandate did not expire in any way.

-- 
Tomas Mraz
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