[fab] discussion topics for red hat ceo

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 11:22 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 09:56 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > What we do not have are branches for RHEL and buildsystem infrastructure
> > to generate these packages for RHEL. We don't know if the Fedora
> > community will see value in managing RHEL branches as well as Fedora
> > branches, given that they may not be using RHEL. It will certainly be
> > more difficult for independent packagers to test RHEL builds locally,
> > since we are not distributing the binaries for RHEL. 
> 
> Not to mention that RHEL packages have such things as stability,
> backported security fixes, etc..  things that Extras packages and
> maintainers don't really worry about now.  Not to mention a 7 year
> lifespan.  I really doubt you're going to find an Extras maintainer who
> would like to volunteer to maintain a piece of software for 7 years.
> 

This is a good reason why multiple package owners is a good thing.

-sv