On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 09:13:52AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > Its an interesting question, one that I'd like to hear opinions on. > Historically we haven't made new packages available in core unless they were > needed by something else already in. However having Extras around helped in > that new packages could get introduced there. Just adding the package in > sounds OK on the surface, but one needs to consider some of the guidelines > we're putting up as far as what can be spun and called Fedora. If a bunch of > new packages show up after Fedora 7 is cut, would somebody be able to make > use of those packages when spinning their cut of Fedora 7? I think it's > pretty safe to say that a lot of these packages wouldn't have a chance to go > through any kind of QA / Testing that Will is trying to put in place. I think Fedora has fast enough a release schedule that new packages and major upgrades of existing packages (except when it's the most straightforward security fix -- thanks, firefox developers!) should wait for the next release. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
