Bill Nottingham wrote:
Gene C. (czar@xxxxxxxxx) said:I dont think that it was intended as a slight but rather a response to the general hands off approach [seemingly] surrounding extras. What Gene was getting at i think was that RetHat expressed its desire to drop the aforementioned packages becuase of space limitation on the distribution media not developer maintenance limitations. Perhaps i am misunderstanding both the nature of extras and the intent of the original author but this is the feeling i have from the outside as well. As a result i think he was looking for a safe place for RedHat to continue maintenance of these packages even if they arent distributed by default (for obvious reasons). Is it a misstatement that packages in extras are relinquished to community maintenance? or does redhat continue maintenance as well?
2. Lets say something major which a lot of users will want is move out of the "core core" and into a secondary "repository" which will still be fully maintained by Red Hat employees. No flaming intended, but lets say this is kde and all kde associated applications. Now that would be a big chunk but it would also be something a lot of users would want. What is the current thinking about how this "secondary repository" will be available to the user? Furthermore, this must be done in such a manner that it is obvious that Red Hat is NOT slighting the packages involved.
I don't see the reason why something like this would need to exist.
It's almost sounds like a slight against Extras, that people wouldn't
want to use it.
-mf
