On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 11:22 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 09:56 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > > What we do not have are branches for RHEL and buildsystem infrastructure > > to generate these packages for RHEL. We don't know if the Fedora > > community will see value in managing RHEL branches as well as Fedora > > branches, given that they may not be using RHEL. It will certainly be > > more difficult for independent packagers to test RHEL builds locally, > > since we are not distributing the binaries for RHEL. > > Not to mention that RHEL packages have such things as stability, > backported security fixes, etc.. things that Extras packages and > maintainers don't really worry about now. Not to mention a 7 year > lifespan. I really doubt you're going to find an Extras maintainer who > would like to volunteer to maintain a piece of software for 7 years. > This is a good reason why multiple package owners is a good thing. -sv
