FESCo decision on 3rd party repositories

[drago01]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > What is COPR?
>>>
>>> It's a newly released platform for building personal RPM repositories.
>>>  Somewhat analogous to Ubuntu's PPAs.
>>>
>>> http://copr.fedoraproject.org/
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/copr/
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/copr/wiki/UserDocs#FAQ
>>>
>>> josh
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>>
>> Interesting.
>> We need to think and see how (and if) to integrate it with the desktop
>> fedora experience. I wouldn't want gnome-software searching in all of these
>> automatically.
>
> Yes, agreed.  I was mostly thinking we wouldn't include them in searches.
>
>> Unless we get COPRs with proper metadata (an archive of all the appdata
>> files they contain, perhaps) and meaningful description, I can't see a way
>> for us to implement a good enough UI to browse and enable those from within
>> the desktop environment.
>
> Right.  Though if there is software contained in some that is really
> useful, we could include specific repos from there.
>
> Anyway, something that can be decided later.

Well there is nothing that can go in this repos that can't be in
Fedora right? (closed source is not allowed, patented is not allowed
etc.)
So if anything those can be used for doing version updates but we must
be careful to not break the system (what if the repo owner loses
interested and stops updating it?) it would leave the users system in
a kind of messy state.