Proposed new feature: Provers
Toshio Kuratomi
a.badger at gmail.com
Fri Aug 8 16:14:51 UTC 2008
Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 16:00 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 09:30:28AM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote:
>>>>
>>> And what criteria are those? I don't think this is the first feature
>>> that has been mostly a packaging affair. Last I checked our definition
>>> of feature was "something worth mentioning in the release notes."
>> I agree. Here the issue is merely communicating something new and nice.
>> Alan is willing to do the associated paperwork so this is certainly a
>> feature.
>
> Haskell support is a feature; is there a reason why this shouldn't be as
> well?
>
I think it depends on how its written up. For instance, this past FESCo
meeting, there was a Feature Proposal: python-nss -- python bindings to
libnss.
Really that's just a package, not a feature. However, if it was written
as "Take steps to make FIPS 140 verification possible" and this was one
of the steps taken, it would be a better Feature proposal. (Being able
to say we've converted foo, bar, and baz important programs or X number
of programs to python-nss would make it better yet).
So similarly, just saying Fedora has a collection of provers isn't a
Feature. But saying, in Fedora 10 we've made an effort to include foo,
bar, baz important provers for Target Audience so they can find all the
tools they need to do X Type of Work. Similarly, "We've done work so
that foo and bar can import and export the same file format", or other
work to show how we're making the user experience better would make a
stronger case for a feature.
-Toshio
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