On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 07:02 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thursday 26 October 2006 06:58, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > Two questions: > > Q1: Will FC7's infrastructure include the tools required to get an > > pre-defined KDE -extra snapshot on release day? > > That is the goal yes. We made great strides with FC6 to get to this point. > Now its the last mile. Not only do we want to be able to have extra CDs at > install time, but we also want to be able to do specialized composes of > Fedora that are comprised of packages both in Core and Extras, so that > somebody could spin the Fedora KDE Edition that has no gnome, just KDE (: I might be a small man, but the "somebody" part makes me a bit nervous. At least during the transition phase (FC7-release), I rather see some hand-holding by -core people to prevent broken ISO's from making KDE unusable. > > > Q2: What will happen if the KDE extra maintainers leave the project. > > Will it be orphaned or will be maintained by FC/RHAT personal? > > I'm fairly confident that there is enough community interest in KDE that > someone or someones will take over. > Community interest != maintainers != DE capable maintainers. KDE is not just a small package - it's a huge complex entity that can batman cry like a 2 y/o baby with a stinky diaper. (.... Baah! building kdebinding RPMs on x86_64 is a good example) - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
