On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Jared K. Smith <jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:06 PM, inode0 <inode0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> What is an example of an official remix? I don't understand the >> distinction between official and unofficial remixes? Aren't all >> remixes outside the scope of the Fedora Project and unofficial from >> our perspective? > > > As far as I understand it, there is no such thing as an "official" remix. > All remixes are outside the scope of the Fedora Project. > > As much as I love Pidora (even to the point of providing hosting for their > site) and think the Seneca folks are doing a fine job with it, I'm not sure > how far I would personally want to go down the road towards categorizing > remixes into two camps of "we will advertise these remixes" and "we won't > advertise these remixes" on the website. One could hope that common sense > would prevail, but if there's anything I've learned over the past several > years, it's that common sense to one person is complete madness to another. > With that in mind, I've come to my own personal conclusion that if it were > totally up to me (and thank goodness it isn't!), I would think it best not > to advertise any remixes on the front page of the Fedora Project website. A > sobering conculsion to be sure, but I can't see any other logical end that > doesn't somehow split remixes into "haves" and "have nots". I agree with Jared's sentiment here. I'm not sure why Pidora should get any special promotion over any of the other remixes or secondary architecture and by being a secondary architecture there's no guarantee that things like security fixes are delivered in the same timeframe as the mainline Fedora. Peter _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
