On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 06:31:38AM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 05:48, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
fedora.us have some heavier procedures to ensure package quality. Some top packagers including Matthias decided not to bother with them and maintain their own repo (very simplistic summary).
That is too simplistic and gets close to a myth. In fact almost all current bigger repos existed before fedora.us and were thrilled by the idea of getting a common project going. It turned out that fedora.us was not interested in a cooperation but more in a cloning (primarily of freshrpms then) and competition.
This is what drove repo maintainers back. Personally I favour heavy procedures.
You can however take their SPECS, submit them to fedora and go through the QA process for them (and in turn they're welcome to take back the changes QA proposed and get them in their own specs)
Or you refrain from creating even more overlaps/incompatibilities and submit your changes right into freshrpms.
Thanks for the explanation! I understand now. I will try to run the gauntlet with my SRPM then without contacting Matthias.
Bad idea, but I see that the communication was initiated nevertheless (good! :).