Summary of the 2007-03-20 Packaging Committee meeting

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

Meeting minutes and full logs of the packaging meeting which occurred
on 2007-03-20 are online:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes20070320

Executive summary:

The following drafts are now official guidelines, having been accepted
by FESCO last week:

 * Codifying when it is safe for scriptlets to write to various
   directories:
   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDraft/ScriptletsWriteDirs
 * Prepping BuildRoot for %install:
   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/BuildRootHandling

If not already done as you read this, they should soon be written into
the guidelines proper.

Issues pending FESCO ratification:

 * Guidelines for using cmake (8 yea, 0 nay, 1 abstention):
   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/cmake

Misc business:

 * Formal rejection of any guidelines requiring ipv6 support; the
   committee feels this is a policy issue.  (7 yea, 0 nay).

 * Cleanups in progress over various wiki pages under the committee's
   purview, starting with
   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee

 * More discussion of Ruby Gems:
   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/RubyGems
   There's some question about whether Gems should be permitted at all
   in Fedora, and discussion is ongoing.  The committee welcomes (and
   indeed requests) input from everyone on this matter.

Please see the minutes and IRC log for complete information.

 - J<