On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 07:41:18PM -0400, Christopher Antila wrote: > > This is to say, "Your mileage may vary." The open-source philosophy > encourages people to choose the solution that works best for them. We do have a slight patch to that philosophy for Fedora, which is to use what is in Fedora primarily. Ideally, if there are problems with the tool that is packaged in Fedora, we work to get that fixed. Sometimes, tech documentation is writing a way around a bug or problematic user interface. Ideally, we see the software fixed, then we can amend or remove the documentation that worked around it. If something is entirely not in Fedora, that seems like a good time to look beyond, such as RPM Fusion. (We should, at the least, put out the word that packaging is needed, someone might pick it up.) But we should still be interested in getting the software packaged in a formal repository. In all of that, we have to be careful that we aren't making recommendations that can create trouble, as outlined on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items . As I'm reviewing the Fedora Musicians' Guide (I happen to be in or part of the target audience), I'll look for those situations where we have trouble recommending a Fedora package, and then talk with you about how to resolve each individually. (Presuming I find them, your mentors may have already addressed this.) (I know we all may hold varied opinions on the best practices here, but the Fedora Project's practice is guided by US law. Our practice here can't be very flexible as it is constrained until that law changes. I don't mean to be raising a debate about software patents and the DMCA. I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.) - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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