[Bug 178162] Review Request: libgeotiff

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 14:09 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 17:39 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > 
> > Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 17:05 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > >> For Fedora Base (aka Core + Extras) I 100% agree but whats wrong with an
> > >> additional repo which isn't enabled by default which lies the boundary
> > >> at "no use restrictions accept for non commercial use only"?
> > >>
> > >> Again let me reverse the question from why a non commercial repo, to why
> > >> not?
> > > 
> > > You are assuming (incorrectly) that Fedora Base is Core + Extras.
> > > That's not the case.  Fedora is anything that is under the Fedora
> > > Project umbrella.  Period.  That's why it's not a trivial task to
> > > announce an official Fedora project.
> > > 
> > 
> > This need not be an official Fedora project, all we are asking is to be
> > able to use Fedora Extra's infrastructure, also this need not use Fedora
> > in the name of the repo.
> 
> Ehhhh, if its not an official Fedora project, and doesn't use the name
> because it doesn't match up with the goals of Fedora, then I really
> don't think we'd want to have it in the infrastructure.
If Fedora is a "community driven project", all this can be subject to
discussion and to changes.

> IMHO, you should feel free to take the open source tools that we're
> using (cvs, plague, mock) and make a separate repository as an addon to
> what Fedora provides, but this isn't a direction that I think we want to
> take Fedora.
Ok, package into a package, and donate bandwidth and HW.

This is what makes the real difference between the Fedora infrastructure
and arbitrary 3rd party repos. 

> As to items that aren't software, 
I am primarily referring to SW. Content is secondary to me, but should
not be excluded from discussion.

It's a pity, but as it seems to me, as if there isn't much "community
driven" in FE. You seem to forget that FE is not about "serving RH", but
about "serving the community" by "community devs/packagers" unitedly
contributing packages.

Seems as if I can't avoid shifting some of my Fedora activities away
from Fedora to 3rd party repos.

Ralf