[ACTION REQUIRED v4] Retiring packages for F-18

[Jesse Keating]

On 07/27/2012 10:15 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> For endusers, the date is more handy for seeing whether the package is based
> on newer or older upstream versions than the scm's hash.

But do we specifically say what you're supposed to put in the date 
field?  Is it the date the hash was created?  The date the hash was 
added to a specific branch?  The date the hash was checked out by the 
Fedora dev and built in the build system?

The guidelines say at one place that the date used should be the date 
the snapshot was made, which can be pretty disconnected from the date 
the hash was created or merged.

A date without clear rules or context is just meaningless digits.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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