Fedora Extras, Fedora Core CVS Open!

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:11:04 -0600, Michael Favia
<michael.favia at insitesinc.com> wrote:
> I personally believe that the fedora extras should compliment Fedora
> Core by adopting the same style of release pattern on a wider array of
> packages that, for various reasons arent included in Core. The other
> goals such as backwards compatibility seem to have a place in a Fedora
> Legacy project.


There are definitely pros and cons to the approach, but long term I
like the idea of "Fedora Collections" Tiemann has expressed publicly
in one of these list a good while back.  If we want to think of Core
has just one possible collection tightly controlled by Red Hat, and
want to encourage community to create new collections based on a
superset of the packages in Core and Extras, i think Extras will have
to establish a development model very closely aligned to Core, so that
Collection builders can pull from both Core and Extras without wierd
development model sync issues.  I think Extras needs to be focused on
a 'development' tree aproach as much as possible so that integration
issues get hammered out as early as possible.

-jef