Packaging:Minutes20070306

Present

 * AxelThimm (normally, but appeared as   during this meeting)
 * DavidLutterkort
 * JasonTibbitts
 * JesseKeating
 * RalfCorsepius
 * RexDieter
 * TomCallaway
 * VilleSkyttä

Writeups
The following drafts have been accepted by FESCO and are to be written into the guidelines:


 * PackagingDrafts/BuildRoot
 * PackagingDrafs/InitScripts

Votes
The following proposals were considered:


 * Firmware Packaging guidelines: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2007-February/msg00292.html
 * Accepted.
 * Voting for: thim1, spot, scop, lutter, tibbs, f13
 * Voting against: (none)


 * Switching to the #fedora-meeting channel for future meetings
 * Accepted.
 * Voting for: thim1, spot, tibbs, lutter, f13
 * Voting against: (none)
 * tibbs reserved the meeting time on Communicate/FedoraMeetingChannel.


 * Closing the #fedora-packaging channel and redirecting joins to #fedora-devel
 * Accepted.
 * Voting for: thim1, spot, tibbs, f13, lutter
 * Voting against: (none)
 * spot performed the channel magic after the conclusion of the meeting.


 * Disallowing %config files under /usr: PackagingDrafts/UsrConfigs
 * Accepted.
 * Voting for: thim1, f13, spot, tibbs, scop
 * Voting against: racor

Other Discussions
The following additional items were discussed; see the logs for full details.


 * Meeting minutes and summaries
 * tibbs foolishly volunteered to provide logs and minutes and to summarize the meeting for fedora-maintainers.
 * Guidelines for building cmake-based packages: PackagingDrafts/cmake.
 * Necessity of making shared libraries executable.
 * perl/perl-devel split