On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 00:05 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> as I always point out when this comes up, in the hopes that
it'll
> eventually irritate someone enough that they go fix the feature process,
> the option is open to simply put Java 7 in without it being a 'Fedora
> feature'. If you do it that way, you could do it right up to, hmm, the
> post-Beta final freeze without there being any firm policy grounds on
> which to object to the change. it's only if you declare it to be a
> Feature that FESCo is clearly empowered to tell you you can't do it. ;)
>
> (I note with interest Toshio's neat caveat to this, which appears later
> in the thread.)
>
Actually, I'd consider this to be very bad advice. There have been several
Features over the past few releases that FESCo has decided on late. Those
things were sometimes made into features only after prompting by people who
realized that the changes were unannounced features.
Things that require coordination between maintainers are a feature and FESCo
has a right to veto them whether the authors of the feature have followed
the feature process or not. The policy encompasses anything defined as
a feature:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Definitions
I agree! It is very bad advice, and it wasn't actually meant as advice
(apologies for the very bad wording here, I had four hours of sleep last
night and wrote that on the tenth hour of a train ride), but more as my
traditional monthly snipe at the gap in the feature process. So, I went
and did something a bit more productive:
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/653
hope that's useful.
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Adam Williamson
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