Needed: Mission Statement

[Dennis Gregorovic]

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 14:01 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> Dennis Gregorovic wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 21:08 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> > 
> >>We're about ready to announce this list on fedora-devel-list and 
> >>fedora-extras-list, but before we do we should write a mission 
> >>statement.  I personally intend on keeping list traffic low noise and 
> >>high relevancy by enforcing strict moderation.  Anything straying from 
> >>the mission statement will have a single warning, then second infraction 
> >>moderate bit set.
> >>
> >>Some ideas for the mission statement:
> >>
> >>* Agreement and documentation of perl packaging standards
> >>* Cleanup and maintenance of Core and Extras perl packages
> >>* Discussion of perl package development issues
> >>* Progressive packaging of CPAN toward Extras
> >>
> >>Anything we're missing?
> > 
> > 
> > Those all sound good.  Also, we may want to define a policy for which
> > Perl packages are allowed into Extras.  (for example, do they have to be
> > in CPAN first?)
> 
> Specifics like that don't belong in the mission statement, but a more 
> detailed document elsewhere that expands on the mission statement.
> 
> Another specific would be fixing RPM's perl dep finder to be smarter by 
> default.  Like never pull in Win32, never parse %doc or example(s) dirs, 
> etc.  That would eliminate the majority of cases where ugly manual 
> Requires filtering is needed, but not all.

Agreed. I wasn't thinking clearly when making those comments.

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