On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:19:53AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 11:05:37 Patrice Dumas wrote: > > That, however seems very wrong to me and, in my opinion, very different > > from the spirit of former fedora extras. Having exotic, in development, > > niche software in fedora is very important to foster rapid development > > and innovation. The developpers should be cautious as to avoid letting > > softwares that are too broken pass from the devel repo to the release, > > but I think that we shouldn't fear from shipping broken software if > > there is an interest among users, they are not the defaults, and they > > are represented as being in development. > > This is fine, however what is in development automatically becomes the > release. Perhaps we need better infrastructure around "skipping" packages > for the release, but that is also bad form for those that are testing rawhide > to see what will be in the release. It is already possible, and I already did this for ivman as I thought that te config system of ivman wasn't ready. I don't remember the details but it was along editing a wiki page (and of course, hidden behind somebody took action). -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
