Adam Williamson (adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > Similarly, if I'm developing some piece of software that embeds/uses > > PostgreSQL, I'm likely targeting multiple distributions, potentially > > including Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, and more. Even if Postgres > > is a core > > well maintained part of Fedora, I'm not going to care about that > > version. > > I'm going to pick a constant version and pull it from something like > > software collections (or, you know, upstream postgresql.org.) > > Things like pgsql, for me, are the ones that make this discussion > complex, because they can clearly go either way. There are certainly, > I think, also cases where you *want* a distro package for it. Yes, I can certainly see where you'd have a Postgres package for Fedora end users, but not have it as part of the platform that third-party packages are expected to use, for example. > > To allow or not allow bundling is the small side point here - the > > questions > > should be more of "Are we a distribution of packages? Are we an OS? > > Where > > do we see the distribution/OS fit in how software is consumed and > > provided? > > Is that different for a Workstation vs an Atomic host?" Answer those > > big > > questions, and the questions on what to do along Ring0->RingN, what > > bundling > > to allow, etc. should fall out. > > Absolutely this. Can you please stand for election to something again? > :) Heh. While I appreciate the sentiment, as Josh says, it's not about standing for office, it's about having time to acutally do the consensus building, the proposals, & the work, and that is time I don't have at the moment. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
