FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-08-20

[Karsten Hopp]

Richard W.M. Jones schrieb:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 08:29:12PM -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
>> * FESCo voted against making the Prover(1) a feature, since they felt it
>> didn't meet the criteria(2) of being a new feature.  Note: This isn't to
>> say that this isn't a good thing, but they felt the target audience was
>> fairly limited.
>>      1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Provers
>>      2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Definitions
> 
> It's very disappointing that this isn't considered a feature, largely
> (so it seems from the IRC log) because the target audience is
> considered "very limited".
> 
> Although provers are used only by a few experts to check that software
> is correct, the benefits of using formally checked software
> (functions, data structures, libraries, etc.) accrue to all users of
> that software.
> 
> I hope that David & others working on this don't get discouraged and
> this work continues, perhaps as a Fedora SIG.
> 
> Rich.
> 

+1, please don't get discouraged when FESCo rejects a feature proposal.
Rejecting something as a feature doesn't mean that the package isn't accepted
into fedora. It just means that it doesn't met the requirements described in
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Definitions#Features.


    Karsten