RFC: Proposal for a more agile "Fedora.next" (draft of my Flock talk)

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:53:19PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Well, obviously Someone is doing that quite a lot anyway. Fedora needs
> > to continue to avoid that. Here is where "work with upstream" comes in
> > -- if we put the same effort into reviewing packages in Fedora into
> > reviewing the same code at the _upstream_ packaging point, we
> > significantly increase the amount of good our work is doing _and_ we can
> > draw in a larger community of people interested in the same ends but not
> > necessarily in Fedora or RPMs.
> You don't necessarily need to distribute these RPMs.  You could have a
> tool that takes the upstream sources, compiles it, turns it into an
> RPM and installs that (all done on the end-user's machine).  Of
> course, integrating that with yum is challenging; maybe a yum plugin
> can do it?

Yes, exactly, to all of that. :)



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