Java packages, guidelines, ...

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Tue Mar 18 01:22:56 UTC 2008


>>>>> "KK" == Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> writes:

KK> There are a bunch of packages blocking F-GUIDELINES on the ground
KK> of being Java packages and the Java guidelines not being
KK> finalized. Yet there are another bunch of Java packages which have
KK> been in Fedora for years. This is inconsistent and just generally
KK> doesn't make sense.

It makes pretty good sense if you consider that we don't really have
the option of ripping them out of the distro.

KK> If what we have now is good enough for all the existing packages,

It isn't.

KK> And once the guidelines are finalized, the packages can always be
KK> fixed to conform to them.

Yeah, good luck with that.  Look how much fun the merge reviews are.

How about helping with the guidlines?

 - J<




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