Recapitulate the current state of Fedora Extras and some ideas to make it better

[Rahul]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:11:23 +0530, Rahul wrote:
> 
>>>>>   * close the gap between Core and Extras as far as possible
>>>> Would be quite useful to document every single difference between core 
>>>> and extras somewhere so that we can tackle this as we move along. Can 
>>>> someone do this?
>>> Hmmm. Yeah, it might make sense. But we, the Extras community, don't 
>>> have much influence or knowledge about the details or plans to close the 
>>> gap (or merge the two).
>> You dont require any knowledge about the future plans to merely document 
>> the differences. Still I dont mind owning this but then I need to bug 
>> someone with more extras repository knowledge than me to help me out.
> 
> Can you shed some light on "plague vs. brew" and why Core and Extras
> buildsys and infrastructure divert in this area?

I can answer this now since I brought the exact question before to the 
board.

Answer:

Brew is not just the build system but Fedora Core's package management 
(tracking packages) system to produce a distribution too. This is esp 
important for something that is not pushed out as just rolling updates.

> 
> Also, I've read that Red Hat can set a package owner _per dist release_
> instead of _one owner per package_ (which is what our "owners.list" can do
> only).
> 

Jesse Keating (adding to CC) would be able to answer this one and 
possibly expand more on the response to your first question too.

Rahul