On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:17:00PM -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > There are two sides of this - having our Foundations in my heart, I have to > say no. Period. But on the other hand, we should educate our users, not hide the > rest of world from them. What do I mean? User wants to play for example MP3s - > our system horribly fails, PackageKit is trying to look for something that does > not exist, fails - and this is that time it should show message like "Dear user, > we are very sorry but... We believe in ... and so you can try to use Ogg format > instead of MP3, take a look to services providing music under CC in this format. > We love such music! ... more explanation ... If MP3 support is still needed, > please approve addition of proprietary Fluendo repository. We can't have any > liability and we can't support any 3rd party repositories of software". We tried that before with Codeina, and it didn't seem to end in a terribly satisfactory way. Instead we moved to a model where we'll offer an mp3 codec if the user has manually enabled a repository that provides an mp3 codec. What's changed to cause us to revisit that decision again? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
