Software in infrastructure vs repositories

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 01:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 07:53 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> >>> Once upon a time Wednesday 16 May 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >>>> Hi
> >>>>
> >>>> Has Fedora Infrastructure team consider a rule not to deploy any
> >>>> proprietary software and not even any software that is not available in
> >>>> the official Fedora repository? That would make things easier for
> >>>> ensuring good packaging, maintenance and licensing.
> >>> That is what our rules are.  we only use what is in Fedora.  if there is some 
> >>> OSS thing we need we get it in Fedora before we use it.
> >> Can you document this anywhere?
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> If it is policy it should be documented.

give me a break are we really so much of a bureaucratic organization
that we can't allow any 'oral history' of some policies?

-sv