On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:46:01 +0200 Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 09:13 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 16:54:44 +0200 > > Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 06:35 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > > On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 18:25:59 +0200 > > > > Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > This has been brewing in my head for a while so I'll just > > > > > spill it > > > > > > > > > > Introduce an "in-development" flag for packages in Fedora. > > > > ...snip... > > > > > > > > - Its a bit undiscoverable to the casual yum/dnf user, you have to > > > know about it and it seems to me searchable only through the web > > > interface. > > > If the software is so in development that we shouldn't ship it in a > > stable release we likely shouldn't ship it in a development release > > also. the software additionally would not be available to the > > casual user as they tend to not run rawhide but a stable release > > where the software is not available > > Sorry, my "casual user" was confusing. What I meant is the casual > drive-by developer/sysadmin type that when tasked with something > requiring software not already in Fedora does something resembling: > > - yum searches something_related, doesn't find it > - knows about copr and searches there, doesn't find it > - goes to google/github and searches in the jungle, then either > downloads or does homebrew packaging which solves his problem but > doesn't necessarily benefit the whole picture. > > And this whole picture in my ideal world is people having Fedora as > their primary development platform with every conceivable foss > software at their fingertips, preferably packaged in a production or > in-development form. > > Thanks for the feedback. In your scenarios though they like do not see the software anyway because it is only in rawhide and they are using a stable Fedora. so what you really need I think is a way to have them contribute back to a copr the software they use to enable it to develop to a point it can be included in Fedora, if it make sense. For your ideal world is exactly why we have copr's Dennis -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
