Package Maintainers Flags policy

[Jerry James]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> In FESCo's 2009-03-28 meeting a policy on Flag usage for packages in
> Fedora was approved.
>
> Due to an oversight, this policy was not announced here. ;(
>
> Please see:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Maintainers_Flags_Policy
>
> and direct any comments to FESCo in a ticket or via the devel list.
>
> Thanks, and sorry for the oversight. ;(
>
> kevin

The title of this policy didn't convey the correct meaning to my
software-oriented brain.  I was wondering why the setting of boolean
values needed a policy. :-)  In fact, I've got two problems with this
title:

1. The word "flags" has a well-established use in the software world; and

2. The "in Fedora" part is redundant since the policy document is
hosted on a Fedora-specific wiki.

Might I suggest changing the title to "Policy for Handling
Geopolitical Flags"?  Even that is a bit wordy.  How about
"Geopolitical Flag Policy"?  I think you need "Geopolitical" in there
somewhere to avoid confusing software geeks like me.
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/