Packaging:Minutes/20090217

Present

 * Denis Leroy (delero)
 * Dominik Mierzejewski (Rathann|work)
 * Jason Tibbitts (tibbs)
 * Ralf Corsepius (racor)
 * Rex Dieter (rdieter)
 * Tom Callaway (spot)
 * Toshio Kuratomi (abadger1999)
 * Xavier Lamien (SmootherFrOgZ)

Regrets

 * Hans de Goede (hansg)

Writeups
There are no new guidelines this week.

Votes
The following proposals were considered:


 * User Creation
 * Somehow during the wiki conversion a guideline page was created that redirected too a draft page. This was in error; FPC never approved the draft and the redirection page has been removed.


 * Preferring %global over %define
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/global_preferred_over_define
 * Draft was accepted. If FESCo approves, we will run through and update the various guidelines and templates.


 * Review Guideline for fonts
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ReviewGuideline_for_fonts_%282009-01-22%29
 * The draft was unchanged from two weeks ago, save for the addition of a discussion section. FPC again voted against the draft.
 * However, see below for discussion of plans for the ReviewGuidelines document.


 * PHP Guideline changes to accommodate channels
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/PHP
 * The draft was clarified as requested in the previous meeting. The new draft was accepted.


 * Guidelines for the Epoch: tag
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Epoch
 * The draft was modified according to discussion and the modified draft was accepted.


 * Revised Icon Cache scriptlets
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Icon_Cache
 * The draft was accepted.


 * Clarification to the guideline on duplicate files
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Duplicate_Files
 * The draft was accepted.

Older Business
The following three drafts from the previous meeting await FESCo


 * Explicit Requires - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ExplicitRequires
 * Updated Haskell Guidelines - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Haskell
 * Symlinks - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Symlinks

Other Discussions

 * There was some discussion relating to the ReviewGuidelines document in the wake of the failure of the ReviewGuideline_for_fonts document to pass for a second time. abadger1999 drafted https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/Type_Specific_Guidelines as a strawman, and spot indicated that he plans to put additional work into ReviewGuidelines.  There was also discussion of moving it out of the Packaging namespace and handing it over to the Package Review SIG, but that SIG has yet to develop fully.