Fedora Extras packaging beta software into production repos, why?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:02:53 -0500, Christopher Aillon wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:23:51 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> I'll admit to being in a foul mood, part of which being caused by yet
> >> another message trying to 'fix' the non-broken part of last week's
> >> conflict, and that after a lot of people tried very hard not to feed the
> >> flames by keeping quiet.
> >>     
> >
> > A couple of valid questions have been raised. And an upgrade to a beta
> > release with an approval in less than 24 hours is something that is
> > broken.
>
> Not necessarily.  There can be valid reasons to do so.  Major security 
> problems in the old one can be a valid reason.  The old package might 
> violate some sort of patent or copyright or trademark which has been 
> fixed in the beta.  Probably other reasons, too.

None of your examples is a valid reason, because all this is still during
the Fedora Extras New Package Process when the package is _not_ included
within Fedora Extras yet.

We don't do reviews for packages which are part of Fedora Extras already.
So the cases you've given do not depend on any prior approval.