Policy proposal for compatibility packages

Brian Pepple bpepple at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 2 17:08:59 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 10:56 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:21:49 -0500
> Brian Pepple <bpepple at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> > Here's a proposal for the handling of new compat packages:
> > 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BrianPepple/DraftCompatPackages
> > 
> > FESCo discussed this back at our last meeting, but before we pulled the
> > trigger on this, I want to get feedback from the mailing list.  I'm
> > tentatively planning on having FESCo vote on this at the 2008-01-10
> > meeting, though that could change based on any feedback I receive.
> 
> Should there be, or is there, a time limit on the life of compat
> packages?

IMO, we should leave that decision to the compat packager.  Also, I'd
like to have the bureaucracy of the policy be fairly minimal.

Later,
/B
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Brian Pepple <bpepple at fedoraproject.org>

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BrianPepple
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