Fedora Extras packaging beta software into production repos, why?

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 00:30 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 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.

I think there are obviously valid and invalid reasons to have "beta" or
"prerelease" versions of software in Fedora. Perhaps any packager
wishing to go to a "beta" or "prerelease" should have to present their
rationalization to the Fedora Packaging Committee/FESCO for approval?

~spot
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