'outdated' packages in rawhide

[Warren Togami]

Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> 
>> So what's the status of opening cvs/svn/whatever for people ro + rw 
>> for experienced contributors? This works quite well - PLD is for 
>> example developed in this style (but in contrast to Fedora there are 
>> no people who are paid for working on PLD).
>> There are people who have plenty of time and could do such job for free.
> 
> 
> Fedora _Core_ is controlled *only* by @redhat.com people.
> 

For now it is, but your contributions and discussion here has already 
made a large impact into what is in the distribution.

In the longer run, the goal is to have many packages in both FC and FE 
with @redhat.com and community maintainers.  Many peripheral end-user 
packages like gaim, thunderbird, sylpheed, gftp, and others, would 
greatly benefit from multiple maintainers and the combined man-power 
because the risk is much lower than core dependency packages.  Some more 
sensitive and likely-to-break-servers packages can have external 
maintainers who are heavily involved upstream.  For example ESR + fetchmail.

Warren