On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 12:39 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 10:40:36AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> That's just all the more reason to publish the branched packages in CentOS >> Git as soon as they're branched, or even maintain them in Fedora dist-git. >> But I'm not holding my breath for it to happen any time soon. > > I wouldn't suggest holding breath, exactly, but let's entertain the > idea. (I mean, at the very least, hey, it's open source, and we could > import branches from CentOS dist-git if we found a benefit from it....) > > If we did this in Fedora dist-git, how would people feel about having a > RHEL/CentOS branch which is effectively owned by the company? Since the > Core/Extras merge, we've striven to avoid cases where Red Hat has > special access. This wouldn't introduce any regression in that to > Fedora-OS branches themselves, but there would be some > "company-specialness" which we've kept away from. Is that okay? > > I guess theoretically with arbitrary branching, we could allow special > branches like this for *any* purpose, like other remixes or variants as > approved by the community (assuming open source and legally possible) > -- it wouldn't have to be Red Hat _especially_ special. RH branches > would just be a case of that. I'm surprised you've gotten 0 replies to this at all. I can't tell if that is because people didn't really catch the subject, or if people aren't interested, or they don't see the benefit? I, for one, find the topic interesting. I'd like to see a more fleshed out idea of why we'd do that though. josh _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
