On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 09:03:14AM +0100, Bill Nottingham wrote:
What do people think of this idea overall? Anyone interested in polishing this up into a Real Thing?
I'm not necessarily against this, but how does this differ from the 'Fedora Commons' part of the original proposal? What would we be accomplishing here above and beyond a set of curated COPRs?
The original idea was that the Commons would be a bubble of packages under the current strict packaging guidelines; this is a suggestion for a different bubble for packages that don't yet conform.
The difference from curated COPRs is:
- dodges the "signing in coprs is hard" problem - packages would be expected to work together -- it's an integration point - could still have some rules (I didn't mention this, but "don't update base packages here" would be one) - potentially easier discoverability for each package - depending on the focus between "ugly" vs. "incubation" or "staging" as a name, the implication would be that these are packages which are _striving_ to be part of the commons ("Fedora Collection"?) but aren't ready yet, whereas some other things might live in COPRs forever and have no intention of ever playing nice.