Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2012-07-23)

[Kevin Kofler]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> If it's clear to FESCo that the feature is going to have a significant
> impact on packages outside of those directly affected by the change then
> FESCo should take that into account when approving the feature. However,
> if a feature is well-confined to the packages under the maintainer's
> responsibility then second-guessing the maintainer's judgement is
> dangerous. Any negative fallout should be dealt with by the maintainer,
> and unless that fails I don't see any reason for FESCo to be involved.

The feature definitely has a significant impact on freetype. And freetype-
freeworld (which I own in RPM Fusion), though that's not in Fedora for 
obvious reasons. At the very least, you need to talk to Marek Kasik, the 
Fedora maintainer of freetype.

        Kevin Kofler