Fedora Extras is extra

[William M. Quarles]

Bernd Radinger wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:49:19 -0500, William M. Quarles <quarlewm at jmu.edu> wrote:
> 
>>I put this back on list (which is a newsgroup for me).
> 
> *oops*
> 
>>>>Fedora Extras was supposed to be a community project from the beginning.
>>>> It did not come from Red Hat like Fedora Core did.
>>>
>>>Did you ever read fedora.redhat.com? ``Fedora Extras'' is part of Red
>>>Hat's Fedora Project. But it does not exist yet.
>>
>>Yeah, and I haven't seen it on The Fedora Project website yet at all.
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/terminology.html  <-- it's
> explained right there
> 
>>Apparently you haven't been to <http://www.fedora.us/> lately either,
>>since that is where Fedora Extras currently exists.
> 
> Did anybody disagree with that?!

Yeah, somebody did.  You specifically said, "Did you ever read 
fedora.redhat.com? ``Fedora Extras'' is part of Red Hat's Fedora 
Project. But it does not exist yet."  Read back in my 15:49 -0500 
message where I made the quote (or perhaps your original message stored 
wherever you keep your sent mail), which you conveniently have forgotten 
about, even though it appears about 10 lines above this paragraph 
(eactly 13 in my compose window).

>>Fedora Extras is not listed as one of the Fedora subprojects.
>><http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/>
> 
> Fedora Core and Fedora Alternatives are not listed there either. ;-p

Yeah, but at least Fedora Core is mentioned about a bazillion times on 
that site.  Since you sent me that URL, this is the first that I've ever 
heard of a Fedora Alternatives.

>>>>There should be a
>>>>community on Fedora Extras now.  And if this is a respected part of the
>>>>Fedora Project, I am sure having a hard time finding the link from
>>>>fedora.redhat.com to fedora.us.
>>>
>>>http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/
>>>
>>>There you are.
>>
>>I don't see anything about Fedora Extras there either. 
> 
> Try once more.

I see a link to fedora.us, but they are calling it the Fedora Linux 
Project (which no longer exists), rather than the more current name for 
it as Fedora Extras (which will soon no longer exist there either).  The 
terminology page which you have signaled defines Fedora Extras, but that 
is about it.  I guess this is our community, right here, in which we are 
talking about a currently unknown list of packages for Fedora Core 3, 
and some other packages which most people don't download* and apparently 
at least some don't even know about being on fedora.us.

*because their alternatives have better reputations

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Peace,
William