Core + Exrtas 2

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 09:13 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 20 November 2006 08:41, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Are you talking about having a general policy on updates or having a
> > release freeze like FC instead of rolling updates like FE?
> 
> No, he's asking about introducing new packages to a released product.  Say 
> Fedora 7 goes out the door with a given package set.  Three weeks later a 
> great new package gets added to the Fedora universe, what kind of policy 
> would there be in making this package available to the Fedora 7 users?
IMO, basically like FE has been doing it, so far, except that breaking
APIs, ABIs and packages deps etc. must not happen.

> 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.
Exactly, you'd loose this advantage.

Also you seem to be neglecting that "volunteer contributors" are
interested in seeing their packages being shipped and used, i.e. as part
of the current distro. At least to me contributing packages to "rawhide"
at the price of having to cope with "rawhide" would be highly
non-interesting and non-applicable.

Ralf