New place for Extras pages in the wiki

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 02.03.2007 07:35, 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 pages"  should be strictly
> separated. Whether "Packaging" should be "FPC owned/controlled" is
> different question.

Yes -- the stuff from the PC could be moved to the Packaging/Guidelines/ 
and the organizational stuff (meeting schedule, guidelines drafts) could 
be under FPC/ or PackagingCommittee/ (and that from FESCo below FESCo/

> 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:

Well, moving the pages around is a lot of work (it's not like it's a 
simple rename of a directory), so I'd say we use this moving time to 
clean the structure that evolved over time up a bit.

> Either 
> * do nothing and keep things as they are.

Might be an option, albeit one that gets confusing one over time. So 
sooner or later we need to change this. But I'm fine to do that for 
example right after F7 if we want (that's actually something I'd prefer).

> * Rename "Extras/" into something more meaningful.

I would dislike that.

CU
thl