Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
- Patrice Dumas [12/10/2008 14:43] :
I really can't see how you can say that. Look at the setup of rpmfusion,
Rpmfusion chose to duplicate the Fedora infrastructure (bugzilla, CVS+FAS, mailman, the works). This is much more difficult and goes above and beyond the requirements for a third party repo to get started.
for example, it is clearly not something I can undertake myself.
Once again, if you do not have the manpower to setup an infrastructure, you do not have the manpower to support @code + @base . This is why you need to start by building a community.
But the first question should be why a separate community is necessary. Why is it not possible for one of fedora's goals to be to provide a clean transition to RHEL or Centos at the end of certain development cycles, at which point EPEL/Rpmfusion, etc. would be unnecessary as separate entities since that fedora cycle's repository would be directly usable as-is and would simply need to be maintained instead of the various 3rd party versions that have been necessary to fill this void?