EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile "Fedora.next" (draft of my Flock talk))

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 22.7.2013 18:29, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" napsal(a):
>
>> As for cruft in the spec files, why not bring a proposal to the FPC to
>> update the packaging guidelines stating that Fedora spec files must
>> not contain RHEL/EPEL macros? Then the git branches would be
>> maintained separately and the spec files might be more easily read.
>
> Because I have reach the conclusion that bringing anything up with FPC 
> is just waste of everyone's time
>
> From their decision making ( which often to me make no sense ) to the 
> time it takes for them to approve and implementing changes to the 
> packaging guidelines ( even from "concrete" proposals ) are absurd and 
> more often then not takes longer time than to actually implement the 
> requested change on affected components which makes it impossible to 
> try to schedule ones free time to make those changes even scheduling 
> to make those changing within our development cycle.
>
> A far more efficient approach is to adapt an ack/nack/patch approach 
> on the packing community mailinglist and dissolve FPC.
>
> JBG

FYI, I already did that not a long ago: 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2013-March/008936.html


Vít