new for FC6 and later: Package Review!

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:47:17 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> One thing we're going to introduce for FC6 and later releases is
> package review of all new packages intended for Fedora Core.
> 
> We're basing this off of the Extras Review process.
> 
> Some quick FAQs before we go completely live:
> 
> - Why?
> 
>   Peer review is good. Increasing quality by catching packaging
>   errors before they go live is better.. Educating packagers so
>   that packaging errors aren't repeated is even better than that.

It's really difficult to comment on this before it's seen in action.

A few questions:

Will it avoid incidents like this?
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187714

Do Core package maintainers accept the current FE packaging guidelines? Or
will reviews result in lengthy discussions about personal preferences?

>   The URL will be:
>   
>      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora%20Core&format=core-review
>

Where's the tracker bug? Will bugzilla comments be posted to a
mailing-list?