On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 02:09:21PM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > That sounds good. Maybe recast those ideas as three levels?
> > - Critical Path Feature
> > - Other Enhancement Feature
> > - New Leaf Feature
> We were thinking with a few folks more about "Self contained feature"
> but yeah, there's a lack of real definition.
I think "Leaf" is better than "Self contained", since it's
unlikely for the
feature to have zero outside dependencies. I think it'd be fine for such a
feature to rely on small changes to existing packages (version updates,
say).
"Self-contained" in the proposal is intentionally more broad than
"leaf". For example, it allows a small SIG for a less-used language
that does not affect the rest of the distribution to agree to do a
major version upgrade and to coordinate among the SIG members (as they
would coordinate in any case), without FESCo playing an useless
middle-man.
(The suggested definition of "self-contained" is something like
"maintainers of all affected packages sign up to participate on the
work for the feature".)
Mirek