On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 10:46 -0400, Richard Ryniker wrote:
On 09/26/2012 10:37 AM, Kamil Paral wrote:
> I personally split maintainers in the distribution into three
> categories.
>
> 1. Packager
>
> 2, Maintainer
>
> 3. Upstream maintainer
Is this an argument for an additional Fedora package class? At present,
it seems there are two well-defined types: "critical path" and
"everything else". If gcc is broken, it is a larger issue (it affects a
much greater number of users) than when something is wrong with
gnome-games. A person who principally uses Fedora to run "Mines" or
"Sudoku" may feel differently.
Some distributions have a "user-contributed" category (often a separate
repository) that formally recognizes packages that are not maintained and
tested, or handled in a more casual way than packages with a defined
support structure.
We could have one of those, and call it 'Fedora Extras' ;)
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