Summary from yesterdays (mini) FESCo meeting

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Hi all!

Mroe detailed variant of the summary and the full log can be found at:
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SteeringCommittee/Meeting-20061228

Note: due to the holiday season is was expected that probably only small
number of people could participate. FESCo nevertheless choose to run a
small and meeting without actually voting on anything.

== Summary ==

=== Minimal approve messages ===

Background: Some packages ( krename:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220210 and
 pyfribidi: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219071
) were not branched by our human cvs guards because it was unclear if a
full review had beed done for them -- at branch request time there was
only a small note "APPROVED" in a comment of thereview bugs without
details what things had been checked

 * dgilmore: the reason i refused to branch those two packages was that
the review just said i approve this; [...] i had no way to know if any
checking or anything was done
 * tibbs: I agree that minimal reviews are bad (although they used to be
more common) but I'm not sure the two in question were minimal.
 * thl: I'm wondering if we should add a rule like "the review has to at
least mention 8 points he checked when approving a package"

The decision went towards a proposed new rule: "the reviewer has to at
least mention that he checked the license, if the sources match upstream
and 5 other points he checked when approving a package". Dgilmore will
post to f-e-l about this whole thing in more detail and start a public
discussion before FESCo discusses this further.

Site note: the packages will probably get branched now, but the general
problem remains.

=== How to get something realized in Extras ===

thl wrote
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Schedule/HowToGetSomethingRealized
, tibbs improved it slightly -- FESCO members that were around liked it,
 Will get posted to f-e-l for further comments.

=== free discussion around Extras ===

 * there are still so many broken deps -> seems the ones that are left
need real work.
 * XulChris: "is a dist tag of fc#.foo okay for 3rd party repos?" Some
disussions around this, the general consensus was "yes". XulChris will
probably make a wiki page for guidelines (no rules -- people don't have
to follow it, but they can if they want) on setting up a 3rd party repo
and what dist-tag to use.

EOF

CU
thl