On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:17:18 -0700, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
Quite a few of us would like to see software we do personally use pushed to Extras.
Hi, I haven't been following this discussion, but I'd like to say that I don't want to see software I use pushed to extras due to the fact that Extras is not sync-ed to Rawhide. I am a rawhide beta tester, and extras is a pain for me to use. Do you know what kind of hackery is required to get the Nvidia driver from livna properly installed on a rawhide system? That's because Livna, like extras, is not sync-ed to rawhide.
I'd like to see a rawhide-tracking extras, and I've asked this question before. I was explained that there are no resources for it. Until resources are found I suggest this be taken into account.
By the way, that also implies you will get no testing for extras packages, leading to more bugs not being discovered until release.
The first is [still] true, the second is not. So far - with the exception of killing fedora.us for FC3 - the extra packages had been rebuilt against at least one FC test release and updated in sync with the test releases. This shall happen again with FC4 Test1. And then will need extra resources who deal with breakage, i.e. developers who run the test releases. This need not be the primary package owners. There should always be room for multiple people maintaining a single package.
And when that happens for many packages, and one out of each group of maintainers additionally tracks Rawhide, you can talk about trying to track rawhide with an extras development stream.