Codeina and how to proceed
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Mar 18 20:01:18 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 15:52 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Paul W. Frields (stickster at gmail.com) said:
> > Some people clearly feel like codeina is doing the Fedora world a
> > much-needed service, and others clearly feel that it isn't. The Board
> > decided last week that it's in the latter camp[1], but the decision to
> > keep the open-source MP3 codec offering and strip out the other
> > closed-source codec offerings rankled several people[2,3,4].
> >
> > [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-March/msg00111.html
> > [2] http://bpepple.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/one-step-forward-two-steps-back/
> > [3] http://davidnielsen.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/fedora-board-masters-of-epic-fail/
> > [4] http://gregdek.livejournal.com/24120.html
> >
> > Other Board members and I responded[5,6,7] to invite people to discuss
> > the matter here.
> >
> > [5] http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/patching-out-non-free-code-offers-in-codeina/
> > [6] http://paul.frields.org/?p=945
> > [7] http://iquaid.org/2008/03/16/fluendo-bastien-et-al-im-sorry-fwiw/
> >
> > Is someone willing to take up maintainership of Codeina for F9 at this
> > point? Would it be (A) fitting, or (B) autocratic, for someone on the
> > Board to take up that responsibility?
>
> In my opinion, if you're going down the road of not shipping *any* links
> in codeina, then patching of codeina to just show a dialog is pointless -
> just nuke the package and implement the dialog elsewhere.
+1
-sv
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