Fedora board vote and way forward

[drago01]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> My take away from the discussion so far is that the current board would not
>> accept
>> anything that 'automates' access to such external software. Doesn't matter if
>> we ship
>> the metadata on the ISO or not.
>>
>> The only thing that I can see flying with the current board is a system that
>> is 'blind' to what it is offering, just like
>> a web browser.
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> How is that a better solution than making it easier to add new repositories through
> the web browser? Or through a URL copy/paste in the software center?
>
> My naive approach would be to:
> - allow repositories to be defined by a single URL (this is what third-party repositories
>   for Synology, iOS jailbreak, Cyanogen, etc. use)
> - use a custom scheme in the software center to pass those URLs, eg.
>     gnome-software://rpmrepos.org/my-stable-repo
>   or even defining multiple repos with a single URL:
>     gnome-software://rpmrepos.org
>   The software center can now show you the list of repositories offered by this URL
> - Convince repo maintainers to add those URLs to web pages
>
> One-click in the web browser, confirm in Software center. It also works for both
> proprietary repos and free software restricted ones. The user can find out about the
> repos through the existing page, that could be linked from the Software center as well:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Third_party_repositories
>
> Having said that, I don't think this is the blocker problem for most users. They know how
> to find the repositories they need ("fedora rpm nvidia" in Google?), the problem is
> providing making it easy for developers to package their wares for Fedora.
>
> Have you recently tried to install Skype or Spotify on a Fedora machine?

Skype offers an RPM.