Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Jason Corley wrote:
>> Nicolas, I believe you're wrong. I can't find a single revision by devrim that syncs from the JPackage spec[1]_ to the Fedora spec.
> 
> Yes if you focus only on the current maintainer's history of
> collaboration with JPackage you won't find any.  However the following
> shows what used to happen:
> 
I don't dispute that.  But I am saying that a new maintainer took over 
the package.  So there was no history of sharing changes with JPackage 
there.  Continuity doesn't follow the package because there is no policy 
or guideline that says that java packages have a special relationship 
with JPackage.  the maintainer was just following the best practices 
that they had established by working on other packages in Fedora.

Fedora is a community of packagers.  Those packagers have different 
styles of packaging and working.  Where we need to, we unite those 
styles with Packaging Guidelines and FESCo Policies.  Until we have a 
policy that specifies that certain classes of packages must use JPackage 
as upstream this kind of thing will happen as packages go through 
different maintainers.

-Toshio