New guidelines discussion on next FPC meeting

[Mo Morsi]

On 03/28/2012 03:36 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 03/27/2012 03:14 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
>>> One more email from me:
>>> I don't know if you have been following the discussion about the
>>> new Ruby Guidelines at the fpc ticket [1] or at the packaging list
>>> (mainly, see last 3 comments, which summarize current state), but
>>> this week (wednesday, 17:00 UTC), the fpc is going to finish the
>>> draft, vote on it and close it. Please, if anyone of you has
>>> something to add, write it to the ticket or come to the meeting, I
>>> myself am going to be there to discuss the remaining things.
>>> This is really the last chance to alter something, so I would
>>> highly appreciate if more of us could come to the meeting or at
>>> least support our opinions at the ticket.
>>> We've been trying hard to carry through as much of our draft as we
>>> could, together with Vit (who is now enjoying a well deserved
>>> vacation). I hope you will find our opinions on the fpc changes
>>> reasonable and will support us. (And if you don't find our
>>> opinions reasonable, there is still time to say so, at least.)
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot!
>>>
>> Hey guys really appreciate the hard effort. Will try to make the FPC
>> meeting (this is on #fedora-meeting-1 right).
>>
>> Just glancing over the new guidelines real quick, overall they look
>> good, but the extended bits to build gems does look like its going to
>> be
>> a PITA. I understand the reasoning behind it, but seems to add alot
>> of
>> overhead (and reading your last comment on the trac issue, will there
>> be
>> situations when it doesn't work?). Also would like to discuss some of
>> the other bits such as all rubygems providing ruby(libraryname) and
>> the
>> bits about interpreter independence.
>>
> Well, I agree with you on the building to be a great PITA, but fpc guys are pretty touchy about that one after last Vit's email on this on packaging list [1], so I guess we will have to accept that (from a certain point of view, they are right, but I still believe that our solution would be better, as I have stated in my last comment in the fpc ticket).
> As for the provides, I am thinking the same and I've been arguing about that with Toshio for a while. The problem he doesn't see is, that according to his proposal, we can have a non-gem library, which provides ruby(foo) and a rubygem-foo, which also provides ruby(foo), which will then result into unexpected behaviour when requiring ruby(foo). I also wrote that in my last comment on the fpc ticket and I will bring it up on the meeting.
> Finally, please expect some maybe-not-so-friendly atmosphere, because there were some heated discussions on the packaging list. The fpc members complain that we don't listen to them and want to do things our way, but they basically do the same - they changed the draft without understanding ruby (or consulting with us first) and in some cases they were very wrong, but still arguing about it in the way "Look, I don't understand Ruby, but...", which in turn made me and Vit very non-happy (which was expressed in our reactions ;)). I would however very much like to try to throw all that away and start all over with Ruby-SIG<->FPC relations (if someone form fpc reads this, yes, I know we have our differencies, but we have to work together, so let's calm down everybody and start again).
>
>

Understood, sometimes alot can be lost in translation over text based
communication as well (tone of voice is very important in conveying
emotion and feeling during dialog, something which gets lost in text).

In any case, is the packaging meeting happening today? Unless I'm
totally off its 17:15UTC and I'm in #fedora-meeting-1 but it doesn't
seem to have started.

  -Mo