Upstream first? [Was: Re: The future of how to debug pages]

[Adam Williamson]

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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