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

[Ric Wheeler]

On 11/09/2011 01:56 PM, drago01 wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Tomasz Torcz<tomek at pipebreaker.pl>  wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 01:41:28PM +0100, drago01 wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Tomas Mraz<tmraz at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>>> On the today's FESCo meeting we discussed the request to move forward
>>>> the conversion of the sysvinit scripts to systemd units in Fedora 17.
>>>>
>>>> The packages which ship sysvinit script but do not ship systemd unit
>>>> according to the Fedora packaging guidelines violate this rule:
>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Unit_Files
>>>>
>>> Such a blocking would be just wrong ... as long as the packages *work*
>>> there is no reason to do that.
>>> I am all for encouraging maintainers to port there stuff but this is a
>>> bit too much.
>>   What other form of encouragement can you suggest?
> I can't think of anything that would work.

Blocking shipment of major features would leave fedora crippled.

I suggest going back to the normal open source way - if you want autofs or other 
package to move towards your new thing (systemd or whatever), get to know the 
system and propose patches.

This "blocking" sounds like bullying, not like our normal community process of 
discussion, patch sharing and proof in implementation....

Ric