FESCo Meeting Summary for 2007-09-06

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 18:21 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:56:23 +0200
> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 15:45 -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
> > 
> > > == Closing Maintainers List ==
> > >       * After a long discussion, it was decided to close the
> > >         fedora-maintainers-list. In the future maintainer discussions
> > >         will be conducted on the fedora-devel-list. bpepple will send a
> > >         notice out announcing this. 
> > Given this decision, I would like to propose to also close down 
> > * fedora-test-list@: 
> > Rationale: There can't be a clear separation between testing and
> > development. testing is part of development and maintaining packages.
> > 
> > * fedora-packaging@: Packaging and discussing details of packages are
> > part of a distribution's development. It doesn't make sense to keep
> > specialized lists for these topics.
> 
> We can discuss this at next week's FESCo meeting if you would like.
Yes, please do so - Put it on your schedule.

This meant to be a serious proposal and is not a knee-jerk reaction[1].
You've decided to kill maintainers@, now you should be consequent and
kill these lists, too.

Ralf

[1] IMO, this FESCO decision is a fault and mistake, we all will regret.
It molests maintainers with long term development babbling and molests
"application developers" with "bureaucracy of Fedora package
maintenance" - It's not helpful to both parties.