This is currently a proposal touching on MeeGo packaging, policy, Bugs and reporting.
Objective
The objective of this policy is to improve consistency and quality of packaging for MeeGo.
Justification
- Consistency in packaging is an obvious goal and requires guidelines.
- It is not clear that failure to adhere to the guidelines is actually a bug in a package (or the guidelines).
- At the moment the wiki policy simply reflects 'random' contributions (eg: some of which I, David Greaves, unilaterally inserted); this is not appropriate for a policy document.
Policy:
- The MeeGo packaging policy on the wiki is authoritative and can be changed using the process outlined below. http://wiki.meego.com/Packaging/Guidelines
- Bugs raised against packages for failure to meet policy are valid
Update process:
For updates to the packaging policy I suggest an open and lightweight process that allows community involvement:
- The process to change policy is to submit a proposed amendment to the meego-dev mailing list (maybe meego-packaging eventually).
- 4 working days are allowed for comments from the community and responses from the packaging team.
- Packaging team members can approve their own proposals.
- The proposal should justify the changes.
- The proposal is accepted with:
- A single ACCEPT from a packaging team member providing no other team REJECTs/RETRYs are received; otherwise
- A quorum of ACCEPTs (?)
- A RETRY is essentially an ACCEPT but asks for some changes to be made.
- The proposal is rejected with:
- A single REJECT from a packaging team member providing no other team ACCEPTs/RETRYs are received; otherwise
- A quorum of REJECTs (?)
- A REJECT should explain (and justify) the reason for the rejection.
- If there is no response a repeat email should be sent every 2 days. After 4 repeats the policy change is accepted.
The packaging team consists of: