kde in extras - the devel discussion

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 07/06/06, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
> There is another possibility: Red Hat could accept outside assistance
> in maintaining KDE in Core.  The point isn't necessarily that KDE
> shouldn't be in core (any more than OpenOffice or Gnome should be) but
> that people who aren't Red Hat employees would like to work on KDE.
> Currently "move to Extras" seems to be the only way to accomplish
> that, and "make Extras indistinguishable from Core" seems to be the
> workaround that would make "move to Extras" not seem to be a slight
> against KDE.  Of course, "Make Extras indistinguishable from Core" is
> a great idea in general.

+BIGNUM

It's unfortunate that Core really hasn't opened up to becoming a
community based project. A more general issue than just the KDE
packages.