Fedora Extras packaging beta software into production repos, why?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Oct 25 12:12:27 UTC 2006


Matthias Saou wrote:

> Axel Thimm wrote :
> 
>> Just to make my point clear: I'm ranting for FE breaking ATrpms, of
>> course, but even for active ATrpms-agnostics there should be one very
>> important issue: Why package beta software, when you don't have to,
>> and why shove it right into productive repos? This just lowers the
>> quality of the repo as a total. I for one am extremely conservative
>> with my own packaging in FE, and I think most people here do so the
>> same to keep the QA standards high.
> 
> Then ask the right question to the right person : Ask the zaptel,
> libpri and asterisk packages owner why he made such a decision. Note
> that in your first email you write :

yup.  bugzilla good.  mailing list flames bad.

-- Rex






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