Core + Exrtas 2

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 09:13:52AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Its an interesting question, one that I'd like to hear opinions on.  
> Historically we haven't made new packages available in core unless they were 
> needed by something else already in.  However having Extras around helped in 
> that new packages could get introduced there.  Just adding the package in 
> sounds OK on the surface, but one needs to consider some of the guidelines 
> we're putting up as far as what can be spun and called Fedora.  If a bunch of 
> new packages show up after Fedora 7 is cut, would somebody be able to make 
> use of those packages when spinning their cut of Fedora 7?  I think it's 
> pretty safe to say that a lot of these packages wouldn't have a chance to go 
> through any kind of QA / Testing that Will is trying to put in place.

I think Fedora has fast enough a release schedule that new packages and
major upgrades of existing packages (except when it's the most
straightforward security fix -- thanks, firefox developers!) should wait for
the next release.

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