Help me triage

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 04:30:15PM -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to meet a (probably overly aggressive) personal goal of 
> having zero NEW rawhide bugs (which are not Package Reviews) by the time 
> of Fedora 10 GA.  Along the way I thought I'd post some of the questions 
> and issues I see while triaging these bugs so we can all learn.  I 
> encourage others to do the same.  I've just knocked the list down to 
> close to 500!
> 
> If you want to join in and help the query for NEW rawhide bugs excluding 
> package reviews is here: http://tinyurl.com/6llac8
> 
> Here is what I have so far:
> 
> # Is there a general policy around using perl in pre/post ?
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462996

Not that I know of, but it is good practice to avoid creating unneccessary
dependancies if there are alternatives, particularly if the choice is between
a large package &  small package. Many perl scripts can be done just as well 
with a short piece of awk/sed. This makes it much easier for people who want
to build minimal/small Fedora images because they don't unneccessarily
bring in the entire of Perl just for a %post script. Not that I want to single
out perl - the same rationale would apply to unneccessary use of python, if
the use in question could be easily written in awk/sed.


Daniel
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