Matthew Miller wrote:
On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 09:13:52AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Its an interesting question, one that I'd like to hear opinions on.
> Historically we haven't made new packages available in core unless they were
> needed by something else already in. However having Extras around helped in
> that new packages could get introduced there. Just adding the package in
> sounds OK on the surface, but one needs to consider some of the guidelines
> we're putting up as far as what can be spun and called Fedora. If a bunch of
> new packages show up after Fedora 7 is cut, would somebody be able to make
> use of those packages when spinning their cut of Fedora 7? I think it's
> pretty safe to say that a lot of these packages wouldn't have a chance to go
> through any kind of QA / Testing that Will is trying to put in place.
I think Fedora has fast enough a release schedule that new packages and
major upgrades of existing packages (except when it's the most
straightforward security fix -- thanks, firefox developers!) should wait for
the next release.
Why, what is there to loose? I agree with you on major upgrades of existing packages,
but adding a new package to the repo, say a new game for example, will not hurt existing
users in anyway, even if they do a daily yum update it will change nothing for them,
except
an ever so slightly larger metadata download.
Regards,
Hans