We are evaluating building packages from Fedora Extras for RHEL

[Peter Gordon]

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 15:57 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
>> For example, I currently do not use RHEL or any of its no-cost derivates, so I
>> would be quite unable to support Scribes or Openbox or other of my packages on
>> it. But, say that John Doe Contributor actively used RHEL at home and at his
>> workplace (due to its warranty support via paid-for contractual obligations),
>> and he really liked Scribes. Could he go through the new contributor process and
>> whatnot and maintain just the RHEL branch(es)?
>>
> This is the plan.  Currently, people can be co-maintainers but the
> infrastructure to assign separate people to bug reports on different
> branches, let certain maintainers have write access to a subset of a
> package's branches, etc does not exist.  So there's nothing stopping you
> from sharing your packages with another packager, but there's some
> features which will make it better in the future.

Great. That clarified things a lot for me. Thanks for your explanation. :)
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