What's the recommended relationship to previous repositories? [LWN.net]

What's the recommended relationship to previous repositories?

Posted Feb 3, 2005 5:22 UTC (Thu) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094)
In reply to: What's the recommended relationship to previous repositories? by adastra
Parent article: Fedora Extras available for download

1. Contributors to Fedora Extras include:
Michael Scwendt
Matthias Saou
Thomas Vander Stichele
Warren Togami
Thorsten Leemhuis
Ville Skyttä
Enrico Scholz
Jeremy Katz
Seth Vidal
Phillip Compton

2. You can do whatever you want in your repository lists. Take a look at what is there and see where to go from there.

3. We're not targeting compatibility with anyone/anything other than fedora core. That said, we're also not trying to be incompatible with anyone.

4. Dunno what rpmforge is doing but last I checked there were packages out there claiming to be from rpmforge so I'd suspect they are.

5. I'm 'from the community' and I'm currently doing all the builds for fedora extras. In addition, the fedora extras rss feeds are generated by me and the wiki with all the status info is run by the community.
Fedora has had a hard time making it easy for community involvement due to a lot of misc foot dragging. But if you really wanted to be involved, you could be. You just had to stop asking Red Hat 'what can I do?' and go ahead and do things and let THEM follow you. That's how the community should work anyway. Don't wait for them to lead. Go there and let them meet you if what you do is good. That being said, it doesn't hurt to prod them in the direction you want to go, either ;)

-sv

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