New place for Extras pages in the wiki (was: Re: Plan for tomorrows (20070301) FESCO meeting)

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Mar 2 06:47:34 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 07:35 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 07:19 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > On 01.03.2007 18:24, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > >> On 01.03.2007 00:29, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > >>> Brian Pepple wrote:
> > >>>> /topic FESCo meeting -- Free discussion around Fedora Extras
> > >>> It might be more appropriate now to change this in "Free discussions 
> > >>> around Fedora" instead.
> > >> This reminds me: A lot of pages in the wiki are still in the Extras/ 
> > >> Namespace. Do we want to ignore that for now or shall we move the files 
> > >> somewhere else? And remove all references to Extras while at it?
> > >> My vote is to move them to Packaging/, as most of the pages are about 
> > >> packaging, so thatÄs the obvious place for it -- but that needs 
> > >> coordination with the Packaging Committee, as they use Packaging/ 
> > >> currently (and have restrictive ACLs, which afaics most people would 
> > >> like to avoid). The FESCo pages would be moved to FESCo/ maybe.
> > > What is the opinion of the Packaging Committee and others on this move? 
> > 
> > No idea, they should all be on this list, so they hopefully speak up.
> IMO, these package do not belong into a "FPC owned" Packaging directories.
>
> "official FPC" and "community contributed packages" should be strictly
> separated. Whether "Packaging" should be "FPC owned/controlled" is
> different question.
Too little coffee this morning: s/package/pages/

> I for own would recommend to change as little as possible, because
> Fedora already has openedn way to many "construction sites" and we
> really don't need more.
> 
> So, a minimalist approach would seem more appropriate to me:
> Either 
> * do nothing and keep things as they are.
> * Rename "Extras/" into something more meaningful.






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