Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2020-11-11)

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On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 2:52 PM Ken Dreyer <ktdreyer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 4:15 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 12:07:29AM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
>> > I still believe that this concept is inherently incompatible with the idea
>> > of a cooperative community distribution, and that bringing it up again and
>> > again with minimally changed wording is not a constructive thing to do.
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>> > I can see why RHEL has a business case for having such "second-class
>> > citizen" packages, but this is not how Fedora works or should work.
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>> Well, except, it clearly *does* work that way. We have many
>> lightly-maintained packages in practice. I think it's better to label them
>> as such and find positive ways to encourage the collaboration I think we all
>> agree is best, rather than the current state where we basically just pretend
>> that everything is maintained with high attention.

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> I'm not sure anyone's pretending.
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> In my experience distros that spilt up into many repos add complexity (and mistakes) on the releng side and a poor UX for the users.
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> If we had labels in Pagure for the packages that you consider to be troublesome, would that help?

I completely agree. This is one of the reasons I switched away from
ubuntu years ago (with its 4 (?) tiers of support + repos for its
packages ...).

While I think SIGs would be appropriate for sharing maintenance of
dependencies of a certain stack, what I thought about recently was to
give those packages to a "nursery" user (similar to an "orphan" user),
which would keep them safe from removal, but mark them as "do not
remove, but no single user is responsible for this".

Fabio
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