[Fedora-packaging] JavaScript

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 01/15/2013 12:43 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:51:06AM +0100, V￭t Ondruch wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Since there is already NodeJs in Fedora, shouldn't be the
>> JavaScript exception [1] revisited? There are JavaScript
>> libraries reviews, such as CofeeScript [2], already ongoing.
>> However, there is also it copy of CoffeeScript in
>> rubygem-coffee-script-source. I know I am going to make my life
>> harder, on the other hand, this is just system library and should
>> not be duplicated.
>> 
> The exception shouldn't need revisiting (things that run on NodeJS
> should not be covered by the exception under the current
> guidelines)  "At this time JavaScript intended to be served to a
> web browser on another computer is specifically exempted from this
> but this will likely change in the future." <=  that exception does
> not cover JavaScript that runs on the local computer.
> 
> However, we do need some JavaScript packaging Guidelines.  There
> have been times (Ruby, java, maybe ocaml... I can't remember) when
> we didn't allow package reviews to continue until the packaging
> guidelines for them were worked out.  This may be another case
> where that should be done.   The alternative is that a lot of
> things in the package spec files will need to be changed after
> guidelines are approved specifically because they are failing to do
> things that are needed for the guidelines (as opposed to most 
> guidelines where changes are adopted as the packages are updated
> for other things).
> 
> sgallagh, would you have an interest in taking guidelines drafting
> upon yourself?  It's a big task but since you've taken on Nodejs,
> you likely are used to big tasks :-)
> 

This is going to require a good bit of work and I'm not as familiar
with how this is organized as I would like to be. I think I may see if
I can get a brainstorming session going at FUDCon this week.

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