On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 07:41:21PM +0100, drago01 wrote:
> 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).
I'd argue that this isn't a "feature" ... otherwise we could advertise
every version upgrade as feature.
If it does not affect a large amount of users it is simply a version
upgrade not a "fedora feature".
Sorry, I wasn't clear. It may be that some set of new functionality requires
small version upgrades. The feature is the new functionality, not the
version upgrades.
An example: I want to propose Scratch, the educational programming language,
as a feature for F19. It's not big, but it's popular and there's a new book,
generating public interest so it'd be nice for it to be included in the
process. Scratch itself is a new package. But it requires an update to
Squeak VM in order to work properly. This is incidental to the feature
itself -- so it'd be weird to classify this as an update to existing
functionality -- but the feature isn't "self contained".
That said, a significant version upgrade to something _should_ be able to be
a feature in itself.
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