kde in extras - the devel discussion

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Jun 6 21:43:21 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 17:42 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Peter Gordon wrote:
> > Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 14:26 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >>> 1. Extras really should not be regarded as a "second class citizen" to 
> >>> Core in the first place, and
> >> I wouldn't be sure. Though I on one hand agree that RH's work on KDE has
> >> not been a "proof of exellence", on the other hand, I think, a couple of
> >> overly ambitious KDE hackers in Extras could be harmful.
> > It's not just those "overly ambitious KDE hackers" though. Remember that
> > Extras packages must go through a strict community review of packaging
> > quality and must follow strict and specific guidelines to pass this.
> > Also, nearly every extras packager (as I understand it) watches the
> > fedora-extras-commits list, and so we as a community could quickly pick
> > out if and/or when a packager is doing something inappropriately or
> > incorrectly.
> 
> As far as I know, Ralf is the only one that actively watches 
> fedora-extras-commits these days.

Well, I am browsing the batch of mails having piled up, ca. every 2nd
week and occasionally comment on very ugly things I notice creeping
in ;)
 
>  I've seen very little evidence of 
> anyone else reading it anyway.
Yes, the FESCo Gods in their incomprehensible wisdom had decided they
wanted a separate list, now they've got what wanted: Basically a list
archive, nobody reads.

I told them before, but they refused to listen ;)

Ralf





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