Respin (revisited)

[Mike McGrath]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:13:12 -0500
> Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> We keep Fedora up to date by means of the updates repo.  If the
>> owners of the respin have an update to make, how does that work?  Is
>> a respin always just a fixed point in time?  I know that a respin can
>> use our own Updates repo (they would be smart to do so) but whatever
>> makes their spin unique may also need updates.
>>     
>
> If "whatever makes their spin unique" == packages outside of Fedora and
> not served by fedora updates repos, they can't call it Fedora and they
> likely need to provide their own hosting and their own update system
> for their users.
>   

This is kind of a loaded question but, in light of that, how many 
re-spins could we possibly host that would still be compelling to the 
rest of the world?

    -Mike