Fedora Extras packaging beta software into production repos, why?

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Josh Boyer schrieb:
> On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 16:58 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:56:09 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
>> This topic came to a sudden end on the same day it was started, without a
>> clear resolution and without any conclusion on whether including beta
>> versions of some software is "okay" in this case.
>> Has FESCo looked into this?
> 
> No.  And I don't think we should.
> 
> Theoretically, the maintainers of the packages know best as to how
> stable the software they are packaging is, what the timeline for said
> beta is to reach production, etc.  If another maintainer questions this,
> then open a bug report against the package explaining why.
> 
> That being said, my personal opinion is that "beta" or pre-release
> packages should only be done in the devel branch, and only if that beta
> has a really good chance of becoming an actual release before the devel
> branch is forked for the next Extras release.
> 
> As for the third party repo aspect of this, that is quite difficult.
> There are potentially tons of third party repos, which already conflict
> with each other.  We cannot show preference for one or the other.  That
> does not mean that a third party repository maintainer cannot open a
> bug.  It just means that we cannot expect Extras maintainers to go
> looking for problems in each and every third party repo before updating
> something.

+1

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thl