Fedora Extras packaging beta software into production repos, why?

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:15:24AM -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Denis Leroy <denis at poolshark.org> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > And on the subject of a wiki page with available 3rd party
> > repositories, it certainly should only contain repos that are
> > *designed* to be add-on repos over FC and FE, in that order.
> 
> If they are listed officially as "compatible with Fedora", what makes them
> "less official" than Extras? Better fold the packages into Extras, and be
> done with it. Unless they ship packages that Fedora can't/won't ship... in
> which case Fedora could end up in legal hot water for telling people how to
> break the law/go against the licenses (or at least end up in a very
> unconfortable position wrt its own guidelines).

This doesn't concern that much packages, and in that case there is livna.

> Perhaps it should be made easier to join Extras?

I don't think this is the issue. The third party repo maintainers won't
certainly have hard time being sponsored.

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Pat