Hi, Warren's brilliant idea of a separate VCS for package reviews reminds me of how the NetBSD/pkgsrc projects does this kind of things. They keep a repository named pkgsrc-wip, which is basically a repository open for anyone (with an account). It is where packages that are not complete/finished/reviewed are. One of its uses is package review -- new packagers just add their packages here, ask for help on a dedicated list and when they feel the package is finished, they ask for a review. This is how they learn to package. It also encourages cooperation during packaging. Other use is that packagers keep packages that are not finished in some way. This is what we don't have and might be a nice thing to have: Let's say a package is in alpha state, without a clear idea when would it be relased and in very unfinished state. Considering that devel/rawhide is place for things that are expected to be stable at the time of release, it's not a good home for such packages. Currently packagers just keep those packages in their private repositories. Examples are KDE4, xulrunner, GRUB 2, etc. I think it would be definitely better to have them in Fedora hosted VCS. -- Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
