[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

Here are the list of this week's changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: The FPC has taken over evaluating exceptions to the Bundled Library Guidelines. A list of standard questions to be answered to give the FPC information on whether to grant exceptions has been added to the Guidelines: ht

[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

Here are the list of recent changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: D Packaging Guidelines have been added: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:D --- The Java Packaging Guidelines have been revised: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java Diff: https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.ph

Open Seat on the Fedora Packaging Committee

The Fedora Packaging Committee has an open seat. Are you interested in helping to decide the packaging standards and guidelines for Fedora? Are you familiar with the inner workings of RPM and its spec file magic? Do you make the wiki cry? Does trac tremble in your wake? Are you clinically insane? (

Re: Licensing Guidelines Update - Please Read

On 07/08/2010 12:09 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 16:29 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > >> >> Q. I thought duplicating files in a spec was forbidden? >> A. This is a permitted exception to that. > > Can we get this new excepti

Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Draft Revision Posted (Replacement for Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement)

ents for some time now, this second window is open until June 4, 2010 (2010-06-04). After that point, either another revised FPCA will be released for review, or we will begin the process of phasing in the FPCA and phasing out the Fedora ICLA. Thanks in advance,

Request for Comments: Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Draft (Replacement for Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement)

Fedora ICLA. Thanks in advance, Tom "spot" Callaway, Fedora Legal P.S. Fedora Legal would like to give a huge thank you to the people involved behind the scenes to make the FPCA possible. The primary author was Richard Fontana, with feedback from Tom Callaway, Pamela Chestek, Paul Fr

[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines 04/09 - 02/10

It has been almost a year since we announced changes to the Packaging Guidelines, so this will be a long list. In the future, we'll try to be more timely in writing up changes and announcing them to the Fedora Community. Here are the list of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: When select