Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2014-03-05)

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Thu Mar 6 13:00:04 UTC 2014


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On 03/06/2014 02:06 AM, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 03:57:02PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> * #1230    Requesting FESCo address Cherokee logo issue
>> (notting, 18:48:47) * LINK:
>> https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1230   (notting, 18:48:47) 
>> * AGREED: FESCo decision reiterated. Package will be retired
>> Monday if not fixed. (+:7,-:0,0:0)  (notting, 18:54:42)
> 
> Seriously?  Retiring useful package?  Isn't that a bit of
> overkill? (Yes, I'm grumpy because I'm using Cherokee).
> 

This has been discussed ad nauseam.

The reasoning was that upstream ships imagery that is in violation of
Fedora's policy not to ship offensive material. We gave the upstream
maintainer two weeks to remove that imagery and update the package and
have now extended that through Monday.

Moreover, Toshio Kuratomi has now gone and used his provenpackager
powers[1] to remove these offensive images and rebuild, which means
that the package will remain.

As for it being overkill: Fedora has policies for a reason. Regardless
of the utility of a particular package, if its presence in the
distribution is offensive (and thereby risks alienating users and
contributors or potentially leading to legal action), then it has to
be dealt with accordingly.

[1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=502771
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