Package Review Process Proposal

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 10:19 -0400, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Dave Lawrence wrote:
> > Name            Description
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > extrasÿÿlegal    Package reviewed for any known legal issues or licencing problems.
> > extrasÿÿreview   Package review request picked up and in progress.
> 
> Are these two really separate? Right now it kinda seems like the initial 
> reviewers tend to do the basic sanity checking of whether its 
> distributable

There may very well be cases where a package will build cleanly, yet
still be in legal limbo.

> > extrasÿÿapproval Package approval for inclusion in the Fedora Extras project
> > extrasÿÿfc3      Package approval for inclusion in the FC3 version of the Fedora Extras project.
> > extrasÿÿfc4      Package approval for inclusion in the FC4 version of the Fedora Extras project.
> 
> Right now we don't do separate approvals for each branch. It's just a 
> review okaying to import initially, and then a review okaying to build 
> (which covers all branches). Are the separate approvals actually needed?

Strictly speaking, no, but it's nice to know *why* it's in FE4 but not
FE3, or vice versa.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/

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