FESCo Meeting Summary for 2007-04-19

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 13:29 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 04:33:52PM -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
> > === Vote on rebuilding packages with old disttag ===
> >  * FESCo voted against a proposal to rebuild packages with old
> > disttag's.  This was decision was based on the fact that there has not
> > been any major changes in the toolchain for Fedora 7, and this would
> > avoid making end users download the packages for only a release tag
> > change. 
> 
> Was fesco aware that we're talking about a download size of less than
> 2% [1] and that the disttag confusion is the least of the upcoming
> potential problems [2]? Was it clear that this is the first time ever
> Fedora rebuilds less than 95% of its packages (FC did 95-100%
> rebuilds, FE > 99%, now it's 80% and 62% respectively) [3]? These
> "details" are rather important.

Yes.  A mass rebuild was voted down.

josh