Unofficial Fedora Remix being advertised on the project front page

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Jared K. Smith
<jsmith at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:06 PM, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What is an example of an official remix? I don't understand the
>> distinction between official and unofficial remixes? Aren't all
>> remixes outside the scope of the Fedora Project and unofficial from
>> our perspective?
>
>
> As far as I understand it, there is no such thing as an "official" remix.
> All remixes are outside the scope of the Fedora Project.
>
> As much as I love Pidora (even to the point of providing hosting for their
> site) and think the Seneca folks are doing a fine job with it, I'm not sure
> how far I would personally want to go down the road towards categorizing
> remixes into two camps of "we will advertise these remixes" and "we won't
> advertise these remixes" on the website.  One could hope that common sense
> would prevail, but if there's anything I've learned over the past several
> years, it's that common sense to one person is complete madness to another.
> With that in mind, I've come to my own personal conclusion that if it were
> totally up to me (and thank goodness it isn't!), I would think it best not
> to advertise any remixes on the front page of the Fedora Project website.  A
> sobering conculsion to be sure, but I can't see any other logical end that
> doesn't somehow split remixes into "haves" and "have nots".

I agree with Jared's sentiment here. I'm not sure why Pidora should
get any special promotion over any of the other remixes or secondary
architecture and by being a secondary architecture there's no
guarantee that things like security fixes are delivered in the same
timeframe as the mainline Fedora.

Peter