Fedora Extras packaging beta software into production repos, why?

[Christopher Stone]

On 10/28/06, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 23:10 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > It was just a few days ago that someone ranted about a 3rd party repo
> > forking Fedora, and this is just an example which shows that the
> > actors are reversed.
>
> Sorry, I don't follow here.  I fail to see how this is the opposite of
> that other discussion.

I *think* the point he is trying to make is that some people don't
like 3rd party repositories overriding Fedora Extras without good
reason and some other people dont like Fedora Extras maintainers
adding packages in Fedora Extras without first consulting with the 3rd
party repositories.

Which goes back to my original idea of having an official Fedora wiki
page that lists 3rd party repositories.  Fedora Extras maintainers
could then check this wiki page to find out which repositories might
already have a package available for the package they want to submit.

The wiki page will also have information such as which repositories
have a review or QA process, which repositories override core or
extras (and if they do override these packages, is there a specific
reason for them to do so). As well as any other additional information
which is required to inform other users of such repositories.