[Bug 226377] Merge Review: rpm

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:37:45AM -0400, Max Spevack wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 
> >On 24.08.2007 16:57, Max Spevack wrote:
> >>On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >>[...]
> >>ELEMENT #2 -- The Fedora Project needs to be open-minded and inclusive
> >>to new ideas, and alternative implementations of things.
> >
> >Agreed, but some thing might be tested somewhere outside first. I 
> >think for such cases we should open a kind of "alphaworks" 
> >"experimental kitchen", "Fedora experimental grounds" or something 
> >like that sooner or later.
> 
> That's one of the things that was talked about surrounding this 
> discussion.  In short -- what would it take to have an "experimental" 
> repository available for people to try things that might be considered 
> particularly disruptive, etc to the "mainstream" Fedora processes.
> 
> What are some of the bigger technical challenges that stop us from just 
> setting something like that up pretty quickly/easily?

With the compose tools open, anyone can compose to their hearts
content.

As for making their own repositories, that's one thing
fedorapeople.org can assist with.  For reasonable sizes of additional
packages, any Fedora contributor can publish a yum repository on
fedorapeople.org.

-Matt