Fedora board vote and way forward

[Richard Hughes]

On 24 January 2014 14:28, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> Not unless the user has already added the Chrome repository.

So if gnome-software supported YMP files
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:One_Click_Install_ISV that would be
okay for FESCo? Of course, that would mean convincing all the non-free
upstreams to add an extra file, as well as the traditional
semi-static-binary-plus-repo.rpm file.

I'm not sure it makes it any easier from an end user point of view,
and I'm sure it makes it a lot less safe. Imagine some random person
posting a malicious ymp file in fedoraforum.org which gets picked up
by google for some common search words and users haplessly click on it
without reading the XML or verifying the URL. In that case it might
just be safer for users to search for chrome on google, get directed
to http://www.google.com/chrome and then they can click the .rpm file
there.

Which is the point we're at now. What FESCo has effectively said is
"what we have now is fine", and we have a declining userbase that says
otherwise.

Richard.