On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Christian Schaller <cschalle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> <SNIP> >>> > I would actually like to go a little further, and make it easy to enable >>> > 'clean' third-party repositories. If we imagine a future where e.g. >>> > valve is hosting a repository with their steam client, or say, the >>> > chromium web browser is available from the a fedora people page, I would >>> > really like it if searching for 'steam' or 'chromium' in gnome-software >>> > would bring up a text that said something like: The software you are >>> > looking for is available from a third-party repository. Do you want to >>> > enable it ? >>> >>> That was how I understood the original proposal. And that's the >>> conversation that needs to happen at a higher level outside of the WG >>> before it can really be a reality. >>> >> I don't think we need to push these decisions to be Fedora generic. There is no reason >> why the 3 products can't have different rule sets. Just because a policy would work >> for the cloud image for instance doesn't mean it is the right one for the Workstation and vice versa. > > I don't think we need to force the same policy across all 3 products. > I DO think we need to discuss adjusting the policy with the people > that set the current policy though. That would be FESCo and the > Board. I'm going to guess they have reasons for not allowing third > party repositories to be automatically installed/enabled for reasons > and they oversee the WGs, so bringing it up with them is the correct > thing to do. > > I'd be happy to open a FESCo ticket to discuss this. https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1195 josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
