Leaving? (cont'd)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 7/31/06, Rahul <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>
> >
> > Default or not, at least the name of the repos imply that they can
> > have different governing rules. Core could/should have more strict
> > policies that Extras. I don't understand why this shouldn't be so.
> >> --
>
> The name of the repositories are largely retained for historical
> reasons. The naming was rather unfortunate but we have been steadily
> working towards eliminating differences between these repositories. It
> makes managing things more harder to introduce new policies that differ
> across these repositories at this point and having a lax policy in
> extras compared to core reinforces a mistaken impression that we
> consider extras a secondary repository.
>
> Rahul
>
In that case I understand. The naming is rather unfortunate as they
bring about ideas, that seem to nolonger meet their current situation.

Good luck in overcoming that issue, I have no ideas on that myself.

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