Packaging Committee meeting - 2009-02-17

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

Meeting minutes and full logs of today's FPC meeting are online:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes/20090217

Summary:

No new guidelines this week.

Issues pending FESCo ratification:

*  User Creation
 o Somehow during the wiki conversion a guideline page was created
   that redirected too a draft page. This was in error; FPC never
   approved the draft and the redirection page has been removed.

* Preferring %global over %define
 o https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/global_preferred_over_define
 o Draft was accepted. If FESCo approves, we will run through and
   update the various guidelines and templates.

* Review Guideline for fonts
 o https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ReviewGuideline_for_fonts_%282009-01-22%29
 o The draft was unchanged from two weeks ago, save for the addition
   of a discussion section. FPC again voted against the draft.
 o However, see below for discussion of plans for the ReviewGuidelines
   document.

* PHP Guideline changes to accommodate channels
 o https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/PHP
 o The draft was clarified as requested in the previous meeting. The
   new draft was accepted.

* Guidelines for the Epoch: tag
 o https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Epoch
 o The draft was modified according to discussion and the modified
   draft was accepted.

* Revised Icon Cache scriptlets
 o https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Icon_Cache
 o The draft was accepted. 

* Clarification to the guideline on duplicate files
 o https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Duplicate_Files
 o The draft was accepted.

There are also three drafts from the previous meeting awaiting FESCo
approval:

* Explicit Requires -
   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ExplicitRequires
* Updated Haskell Guidelines -
   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Haskell
* Symlinks -
   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Symlinks 

 - J<