Until FESCo approves a new policy on services that may autostart we need to be giving maintainers some idea of the boundaries. I pulled the current FPC guideline into a page with a little commentary::
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/Current_Autostart_Policy
You could approve that verbatim, approve that with modification (for instance, the letter of that section disagrees with the spirit that FPC has been enforcing so you could choose to go with the spirit of what FPC has been doing), or come up with something new for the interim (Until a new policy is approved, FESCo says no to any new daemons starting, daemons which already autostart may continue to. Come to FESCo if you need something to autostart now so that you can test for F15.)
let me know when you have something and I'll remove the piece in the current Guidelines and point to the FESCo policy instead.
FESCo is fine with this, but doesn't like all the text in the last two sections.
Could we just replace those with something like:
"Warning: This policy is under review by FESCo, expect changes soon, check back often" ?
Using the current text from the guidelines with just a note that the policy will probably change and that the new policy may require services to be turned off is fine with me although you might need to tell more people to turn their services off later if the eventual policy is more strict than a literal reading of that text.
The discussion on the page was just that the stated policy is less strict than the policy that FPC and reviewers have been telling people in reviews, on IRC, etc. So if the FESCo policy is likely going to be more strict, it's likely a good idea to rephrase it to be closer to the more strict enforcement (which you can loosen when your policy comes out if it differs). If the eventual policy is going to be less strict, then letting people autostart more services now (by using the current guideline text verbatim) is probably a better choice.
For my purposes (updating the guidelines) it doesn't matter what you choose for this interim policy as long as a choice is made quickly. (ie: I'm fine with whatever wording you decide on -- just letting you know what I see as the advantages/disadvantages of any particular decision.
This was mooted by the acceptance of the new policy I think.
Feel free to reopen or revisit if this is not the case.
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