FESCo meeting summary for 2009-07-31

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:06:38PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>> It is a random upstream project but one developed within Fedora and
>>> Fedora can and should tell them not to do so. Why shouldn't we? Again
>>> they don't need or deserve special exceptions. Treat them like any other
>>> upstream project. That is all I ask.
>> 
>> No.  That is part of the problem with your proposal.  You have targetted RH
>> or Fedora packages that do this.  If some other package only distributes via
>> SRPM (or .deb, or ebuild), they aren't required to comply.  Why force these
>> RH/Fedora packages to do something that we don't force other packages to?
>> 
>The proposal doesn't target Fedora or RH.  The exception targets Fedora
>or Red Hat.  This removes that exception.

It appears I have misread the proposal as written.  I've also generally made
an ass out of myself here.  I withdraw my objection.

josh