Re: Build sheriff proposal ...

[Joe Shaw <joe ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 14:07, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> Might I suggest that a similar policy is adopted for the SPEC files in
> CVS for all GNOME modules. If the SPEC don't include some files it
> should anyone with the needed skills are allowed to add them without
> sending a patch to mailing-lists etc. Chris Chabot is doing some great
> work updating the SPEC's to work with GNOME 2.0 now, so it would be a
> shame if they became unworkable again because the maintainer of module X
> didn't use RPMS and due to that didn't bother to keep it up to date with
> changes.

If this is a big concern, someone should set up a tinderbox client which
built from the CVS spec files.  I know that neither Red Hat nor Ximian
use the default ones, and most maintainers don't build RPMs, so the best
way to draw attention to them is to make them cause a flaming build. :)

Joe