On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 8:31 PM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
To clarify: In Fedora Core/Extras the separation was by access permissions. Here
it is based on knowledge and interests (or a lack thereof). People with zero
knowledge and interest in "RHEL next" development will not be able to
contribute
to Fedora packages (as easy as before) because the sources are no longer only
meant for Fedora.
It's a bit of a divergence, but...
From my foggy memories of my early days in Fedora (I started in the
Fedora Project as a contributor officially in November 2007, but I had
been lurking and poking around for two years prior), the Core/Extras
split was slightly more complicated than that. It was true that were
was an ACL split, but there was also a CVS tree split and the Fedora
"Core" was maintained within the Red Hat Dist-CVS (though nobody
called it that back then!) and synced out to the public CVS tree for
Fedora Core. The transition to the merged CVS tree involved a lot of
complicated work from a lot of different people, and ultimately
enabled discontinuing the weird setup for Core with Fedora 7 and
transitioning to the Koji build system and Bodhi update system, which
we still use today. The transition to Dist-Git in 2009 would have been
ridiculously more difficult if that hadn't happened already.
In case anyone wants to take a trip down memory lane:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/CoreExtrasMerge
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