Recapitulate the current state of Fedora Extras and some ideas to make it better

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:11:23 +0530, Rahul wrote:

> >>>   * close the gap between Core and Extras as far as possible
> >> Would be quite useful to document every single difference between core 
> >> and extras somewhere so that we can tackle this as we move along. Can 
> >> someone do this?
> > 
> > Hmmm. Yeah, it might make sense. But we, the Extras community, don't 
> > have much influence or knowledge about the details or plans to close the 
> > gap (or merge the two).
> 
> You dont require any knowledge about the future plans to merely document 
> the differences. Still I dont mind owning this but then I need to bug 
> someone with more extras repository knowledge than me to help me out.

Can you shed some light on "plague vs. brew" and why Core and Extras
buildsys and infrastructure divert in this area?

Also, I've read that Red Hat can set a package owner _per dist release_
instead of _one owner per package_ (which is what our "owners.list" can do
only).