make force-tag gone

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Sep 11 20:35:30 UTC 2008


Josh Boyer <jwboyer <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Yes.  It was decided to leave the removal, and to also remove TAG_OPTS=-F.

Yet another abuse of power by FESCo. Why can't FESCo listen to the many 
developers who objected to the removal here, including developers like Dave 
Jones and Rex Dieter who are experienced Fedora packagers and do much of the 
actual packaging work in Fedora (Dave Jones is the primary maintainer of the 
kernel, Rex Dieter is #4 in number of builds per packager)? Why can't the 
decision be left to the people who are actually affected by the change, i.e. 
the packagers? FESCo is supposed to represent the interests of the packagers 
(that's what they're elected for), not their own, too bad they actually do the 
latter.

> The decision was not unanimous.

Nice to see there were at least some sane people left...

        Kevin "#7 in number of builds per packager and still gets ignored by 
FESCo on an issue which directly affects people doing builds" Kofler




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