Fedora Extras packaging beta software into production repos, why?

[Christian Iseli]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:36:13 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> There is no way to say "Hey my package
> isn't ready for FC6, yet, I thought I was safe in the development
> repo".

This is not completely true.  In the particular case of FC-6, you had
two options:
 - refrain from participating in the mass rebuild, and your package was
   "automatically" removed
 - put a request in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/FC6Status

I agree that going the whole way and doing proper releases would be a
good thing, but we ain't there yet.

But you are not powerless in the current setup.  There are means.  And
direct dialog between package maintainers can go a long way to reach
worthy goals.

					C