On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 14:53 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "RC" == Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > RC> Yes, I withdrew two packages of mine after they had been lingering > RC> around in the queue for 14 months and turned away from fedora to > RC> shipping them via a 3rd party repo, instead. > > Well, you certainly understand the reasons behind those. As I see it, the reasons were (in decreasing order): 1. rpm/rpmbuilds's brokenness 2. Package complexity, mostly being introduced by 1.) 3. Reviewers' lack of competence to understand the need of the complexity. 4. Highly specialized packages with small userbase/audience. 5. GuideLines incompleteliness (The packages are touching areas the guidelines don't cover). .. > I don't > think we have many packages currently blocked on guidelines, so those > packages surely aren't typical. Agreed, my packages were outside the "usual class of packages" Fedora can handle. As I see it, community contributed Fedora is only able to handle "trivial, mass-market" packages. I'd presume that most "non-trivial packages", which currently are part of Core and 100% under RH control (E.g. GCC, kernel, glibc, perl ...) would have never made it into FE. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
