FESco meeting summary for 20090507

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at greysector.net
Mon May 18 17:53:41 UTC 2009


On Thursday, 14 May 2009 at 15:01, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Saturday, 09 May 2009 at 19:24, Jon Stanley wrote:
[...]
> > Rel-eng brought a proposal during the open floor to allow the
> > inclusion of packages in a special tag (something like dist-f12-maven)
> > in preparation for the maven upgrade that had yet to be through a
> > formal package review.  These packages are not yet in a state suitable
> > for inclusion in Fedora, and the Java team would prefer to get them
> > functional prior to cleaning up the packaging. FESCo approved this
> > propsal, with the caveat that the packages have to go through a
> > mini-review prior to inclusiion in this tag and therefore being used
> > in buildroots.  This mini-review will be defined by FPC, and will
> > include things such as checking for lack of binaries, and legal
> > concerns.
>
> As a packager and a member of the FPC, I think it is a very bad idea to let
> packages in without proper review. I'd like to hear the very convincing
> arguments which I expect were presented directly to some FESCo members
> but were not included in the IRC meeting log for why this was allowed and
> why the packages in question (which ones, exactly?) couldn't go through
> the usual hoops like all new packages.
> I don't see why the Java team (who, exactly?) or anyone else should
> be allowed to import packages into Fedora CVS without proper review.

Four days have passed and my questions above are still unanswered.
Is FESCo trying to ignore the issues raised?

Regards,
R.

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