We are evaluating building packages from Fedora Extras for RHEL

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Mon Sep 11 03:32:16 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 23:16 +0200, nodata wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 10.09.2006, 16:06 -0500 schrieb Josh Boyer:
> [snip]
> > So what's in it for Extras contributors that want to package stuff for
> > Enterprise Extras?  Exactly what they get for packaging stuff for
> > Extras. 
> 
> With one big difference - Fedora Core is free, and RHEL is not.
> 
I hear what you're saying but I think it's a false dichotomy.  Being
able to take FE packages and create them for RHEL is supplying value for
RHEL customers directly; Red Hat only indirectly.  What it really does
is allow RHEL customers to support each other in the same community as
Fedora Extras.  If I use RHEL and I want a package from FE, I can sign
up to comaintain RHEL branch for myself and others.  In return, another
RHEL customer might already be maintaining another package that I would
like to use.  In this light, Red Hat is actually donating build
infrastructure and a framework for collaboration to their customers (and
non-customers as this will benefit CentOS users as well) 

-Toshio
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