[Fedora-packaging] Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

On 09/11/2015 06:40 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 18:27 +0000, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
>
>>> I agree that the discussion here needs to be more broad-based; see
>>> the
>>> other thread fork. I was just providing support for Stephen's
>>> contention that this is not some airy-fairy theoretical problem,
>>> there
>>> are multiple examples of real things that people *wanted* to have
>>> packaged that are not packaged because the unbundling process was
>>> too
>>> onerous.
>>>
>> Arguably that is a testament of how heavy the bureaucracy in the
>> distribution has become not the "bundling" itself.
> Um. I don't see how you can possibly make that argument.

If you where looking at this from a broader perspective ( which you 
yourself proposed doing ), you would see it is entirely possible to make 
that argument because people have been giving up submitting components 
for inclusion in Fedora due to the fact how long the review process has 
taken , regardless if their submitted component had to be un-bundled or 
not.

If you take a closer look at the sample you provided you should have 
noticed the submitted date of that review request is 2012-07-01 and the 
last comment in which he finally gave up and moved to do other things 
wason 2014-01-26 roughly 18 months later so claiming that he only 
abandoned his review request due to having to unbundle the submitted 
component might not be the ( sole ) underlying cause for doing so ( If 
you are thinking about arguing the case he had to depend on another 
component then I'll point out the time 2009-11-27 when the review 
request for that depended component was submitted ) .

JBG