Topics for this week's Release Engineering meeting?

[Jesse Keating]

On Monday 18 June 2007 13:09:55 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> I am not sure how it would hurt the user if we enforce good practices
> using tools as opposed to retroactively fixing it after the users get
> hit by the problems.  Can you explain?  Can bug reports be automated for
> existing packages? Can a RFE be filed against the build system to
> prevent new packages from being introduced into the repository with such
> issues?

Because it's not just about new packages, so just dropping a package which 
grows a file conflict isn't a good solution as that leaves the end user 
holding the bag.  Also a new package may have perfectly valid files/provides 
but an existing package has the improper one, so why penalize the new correct 
package because of the errors of an existing package.  Just dropping the 
package again hides the problem instead of fixing it.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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