On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 02:28:57PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:58:10AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 19:49 +0300, Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
You're just transferring the work. In order to *generate* the list of tens of packages to make _your_ life easier, someone else has to inspect the tens of thousands of packages.
and the someone else you refer to is fedora censorship board! no no like that, I asked for a unified place to put those things in the wiki if the maintainer decided that he does not want to add his package to the list we are not going to shoot him.
If all you want is a page on the Wiki for you and notional other people who are interested in excluding certain packages from their spins or whatever to co-ordinate on listing which packages might be an issue, then I don't think anyone would really object to that - all along we've been saying that it's fine for you to include or exclude whatever you like from your own spin on whatever grounds you choose, and this would just be a bit of organization to help you with that. I certainly wouldn't object to it.
However, you haven't proposed it as that; you seem to have proposed it as a packaging guideline. All packagers are supposed to respect packaging guidelines (we only don't call them 'rules' because we're trying to be all happy-clappy). If you really want this to be something that packagers don't have to worry about unless they actually care about it, then it shouldn't be a packaging guideline. You should just create it as a page on the Wiki with no official status in any procedure. I don't believe you need anyone's permission to do that, you can just go ahead and do it.
I will take blame for the packaging guideline. I suggested one be written based on what seemed to be a request to have this driven automatically for all packages.
If this is just a volunteer-only, totally optional wiki page then I also see no problem. If this is something to be mandated, then the guideline would be necessary.
This is the sanest answer I've heard thus far. If you want a wiki page to display or track something like this, create it. If others feel it's useful, they will help.