Plan for tomorrows (20070517) FESCO meeting

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Thu May 17 02:12:08 UTC 2007


Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 20:10 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>>> "WT" == Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> writes:
>> WT> Guidelines should be VERY STRONG SUGGESTIONS.  Any deviation from
>> WT> the guidelines should be rare, and better have a damned good
>> WT> reason, tracked someplace that is easy to find.
>>
>> The guidelines (especially the one in question) already have exception
>> clauses.  The packager needs to present their argument before the
>> appropriate committee and if their argument is reasonable and
>> persuasive they can be granted an exception.
> 
> I don't think we've ever denied an exception request. Not that very many
> have ever been made.
> 

Hmm.. on second thought this does sound pretty good.  Guidelines as 
strict rules, and you have to request exceptions...

Warren




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