Updates Politics Proposal

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting "G. Roderick Singleton" <gerry at pathtech.org>:

> > This is WAY beyond the scope of Fedora Legacy.  What you also fail to
> > realize is that by keeping applications current, you basically get to
> > the point that CentOS4 or FC3/4 is, and need the same system
> > requirements to run it.  RHL7.3 runs on old hardware because it is old
> > software.  If we make it new software, guess what happens....
> >
> 
> I was not complaining. What I am doing is asking if the the project
> could expand a little for at least the 7.3 release.

I don't think it will expand officially, but...

> Like adding a
> community contribution repository so those of us who want to take the
> time to prepare packages that are outside the main scope so 7.3 can have
> a much longer lifetime.

I've always wanted a wiki page that points to contributed, non-FL 
packages others create and want to share.  But I think that is all
FL could do -- link to packages stored elsewhere -- due to disk space
issues for FL and its mirrors, as well as support issues (if we host
them, people will try to make us support them).

I'd still love to see something like this happen.

> For example, host the isos for 7.3 and make a

I don't have any trouble hosting the iso images on FL, though others
may not agree due to disk space issues.

> contrib directory as well. For those who can run RH9 and FC the current
> situation is ideal.

Again, I don't personally want to see us host a contrib. section, but I'd
love to see a wiki page which points to somewhere where people can put
contrib. packages.  That could be links to people's own sites, or it could
be a repository someone sets up for crontib packages, or a combination of
those.

> Is this a possibility?

Not sure, but it is certainly something we can discuss.

-- 
Eric Rostetter