Quoting Karsten Wade <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 12:39 -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote: > > Quoting Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > > Whats wrong On Document for deployment of Oracle on fedora or RHEL > > > > > > > > > I am not claiming that its wrong but I would like a discussion (not just > > > between us) before it gets accepted officially. So I am dropping off > > > this conversation until others participate in it I was just trying to honor the last sentence and participate. > > I'd like to see it, but I'd like to see it in a separate section, > > so that people know that it documents something that is not a part > > of Fedora Core releases, but can be used with Fedora Core releases. > > > > So, I'd vote to have a separate section for non-Fedora Core included > > software. I don't care if the software is Open Source or not so much > > as I care that it is not part of the distribution, really. I'd consider > > it all "Third Party" software, whether open source or not. > > I think this is not a moot point. > > Fedora Project is about building a general purpose OS from free > components. That includes the documentation. Then perhaps this should be noted somewhere on the FDP web pages? > There are plenty of people dedicated to making non-free software work > and documenting that. It's really not our purpose here. I can accept that. There are other places to put such things (e.g. fedoranews.org). > If we were a general-purpose Linux documentation project like, say, > TLDP, then we could consider all cases of everything that runs under > Linux. But we are a Fedora documentation project. I agree. > To be honest, we have enough work to do already without having to do > Oracle, Nvidia et al's work for them. I agree with that also. Plus, it is no skin off my nose either way... But, it would be nice if this was posted someplace obvious on the FDP web page so that people don't waste their time writing/submitting stuff we don't want. > - Karsten -- Eric Rostetter -- fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
