F22 Self Contained Change: Disabled Repositories Support

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 11:55 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > 2015-03-16 15:52 GMT+01:00 Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com>:
> > 
> > = Proposed Self Contained Change: Disabled Repositories Support =
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DisabledRepoSupport
> > 
> > 
> > "Disabled Repositories Support" sounds better than "Help People 
> > Install Non-Free Software in Fedora", but the result is the same.
> > 
> > Personally, I don't like it
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > That's not all it is potentially usable for. For example, at last 
> > Wednesday's FESCo meeting, we gave GNOME Software permission to 
> > use this functionality to point at a curated set of COPR 
> > repositories. These are all
> > free software, just with a lower standard of packaging. That's a 
> > perfectly
> > sound use of this feature, I would say.
> 
> How are "disabled repositories" going to be approved for inclusion?

That was left officially unresolved in the Council meeting this week, 
but the implication is that someone will have to petition the Council 
with justification on why the specific repository (or really, the 
piece of software that it provides) would be a benefit to the Fedora 
Project.
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