Re: Question about the new 3rd party software policy and standardization across the distro

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On 09/28/2016 05:00 PM, Ben Rosser wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     This is one of the reasons we didn't want significant overlap in the
>     targets for the different editions. However, if we get into *spins*
>     (where overlap is fair game!) approving external repos, I can see the
>     potential for a mess developing.
> 
> 
> Yes; I realized this when searching for examples of this sort of problem. So
> it's probably not actually a problem for the current set of editions, given the
> lack of overlap.
> 
> I'm not sure if the spins should have the power to approve external repositories
> on their own if they are not present in any other edition, but I do feel like I
> should be able to get relatively easy access to the same set of third party
> repositories I would on Fedora Workstation as I would running a desktop spin. I
> suppose when I talk about "distribution wide" approval of third party
> repositories this is really the sort of thing I'm thinking about.
> 

FESCo decided that adding a repo to anything other than an Edition would have to
be approved by FESCo, who operates as the authority for distribution-wide approvals.


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