On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 3:40 AM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If what they're doing becomes actively harmful to the distribution, then we can take it up with FESCo. Otherwise, I think we have to treat them like any other community member regardless of our feelings about their employer.
Frankly I'm still of the opinion the Oracle distribution of the MySQL based server should be dropped entirely... If Oracle want 'community-mysql' to exist for Fedora and want to maintain it themselves then they can set up their own repositories on their own infrastructure and these compatibilities issues with Fedora can be removed entirely as a result.
If someone (Oracle-employee or not) is willing to go through the trouble of learning the packaging guidelines, submitting and working through a review, getting sponsored, and getting a package into the distribution, what basis does anyone have to block that effort? We have packaging guidelines for inter-package conflicts, and those issues must be resolved as part of the package review anyway. The idea that we can single out an organization or a software package and say "You can't put this in Fedora," in spite of the fact that the package in question can made to abide by all of Fedora's guidelines and policies (albeit with a little bit of work and collaboration,) seems contradict the "Friends" and "Features" foundations.
If what they're doing becomes actively harmful to the distribution, then we can take it up with FESCo. Otherwise, I think we have to treat them like any other community member regardless of our feelings about their employer.
Rich
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