Members Present
* Jon Stanley (jds2001) * Kevin Fenzi (nirik) * Dan Horak (sharkcz) * Josh Boyer (jwb) * Bill Nottingham (notting) * David Woodhouse (dwmw2) * Jarod Wilson (j-rod) * Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore)
Members Absent
* Brian Pepple (bpepple)
Make stronger policy/guideline that ABI/API/soname breakage should always be announced fedora-devel-announce (not f-d-l)
FESCo declined this proposal by a 5.5-0 vote (with one abstention), mainly as the proposed solution was deemed unlikely to be effective.
How to deal with Requires.privates in pkg-config
FESCo voted 7-0 to leave the package as it currently stands.
Lenient hash check for noarch subpackages
FESCo declined this proposal with 4 negative votes and one abstention, on the premise that all noarch packages should require such checks, not just noarch subpackages.
Select Fedora representative for LSB =
Dennis Gilmore's de facto participation as the LSB representative for Fedora/FESCo was formalized by a 6-0 vote.
Document "Rawhide cannot go backwards" rule
FESCo approved documenting this policy by a 6-0 vote. Josh Boyer volunteered to write the documentation.
Would be good if there was an acl for "let all packagers edit this package" in pkgdb
This was tabled until after a threat assessment could be made. Mike McGrath volunteered to do the threat assessment.
Features
ext4 default filesystem - review
FESCo was fine with the current status of ext4; no change to the feature's status for Fedora 11 is required.
Meeting log
For more information, see the full meeting log.