Core + Exrtas 2
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Nov 20 14:48:22 UTC 2006
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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