Plan for tomorrows (20080529) FESCO meeting: FTBFS bugs

[Brian Pepple]

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 15:51 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> One thing that came up in today's QA meeting was a desire to remove
> packages from the repository that "Fail To Build From Source" [1] for
> several months leading up to a Beta release when there is no
> resolution in sight.  I'm currently doing a rawhide rebuild, and
> expect on the order of 350 packages currently in rawhide to fail to
> rebuild.  There are at least 144 which are known to not rebuild, which
> have bugs filed blocking the FTBFS bug [2] (or one of its decendants).
> I'll file additional bugs later this week based on my rawhide run.

<snip>

> Please consider adopting a policy regarding packages which continue to
> fail to build from source for a given distribution.  These packages
> need attention, if only because we have disabled F6 buildroots which
> would be necessary to build and fix a bug in such a package package in
> the F9 release.  I agree with Will Woods' suggestion (pardon if I
> mis-attribute) that such cutoff point should be the Beta cut of the
> next version of the release.

Seem reasonable to me.  I'll add it to the schedule for tomorrow.

Thanks,
/B
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Brian Pepple <bpepple at fedoraproject.org>

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