EPEL vs Fedora main

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:44:10PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> OK, so if we don't exist, what exactly is then our mandate here? Why
> is there any traffic on this list?

I am not saying that EPEL don't exist, I am saying that it is very
new. And that we should ask more mature Fedora main for issues when
there are people in fedora with expertise on that subject.

> This *is* the part of the Fedora community that *cares* about RHEL and
> EPEL. And there were invitations sent to various Fedora lists where
> contributors were invited to join up.

The first mail on the list date from Tue, 27 Feb 2007! 11 days ago!
It would be wise to rely on Fedora support for some time.

> > The Fedora community is really existing. And also the majority isn't
> > necessarily relevant. I have seen people being wrong against a
> > consensus because their use case was different and they had have
> > more experience on a subject.
> 
> If you don't trust the majority how will you get to some decision at
> all? It's either a majority's call or a benevolent dictator's.

Consensus through discussion may also be an option. 

Currently the guidelines are not finished, the relationship between 
Fedora, EPEL and RHEL are not completly clear, let's not hurry on a 
touchy subject like fedora-usermgt. There are many more important
things to discuss about that may be less controversial.

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Pat