kde in extras - the devel discussion

[Rex Dieter]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 14:26 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:

>> 1. Extras really should not be regarded as a "second class citizen" to
>> Core in the first place, and

> I wouldn't be sure. Though I on one hand agree that RH's work on KDE has
> not been a "proof of exellence", on the other hand, I think, a couple of
> overly ambitious KDE hackers in Extras could be harmful.
> 
>> 2. It would be maintained in Extras by the same people that brought you
>> the kde-redhat project, so you'd probably get better-packaged, more up
>> to date releases than is currently possible in Core.
> C.f. my comment to 1) above.

I'd hope such a large maintainership burden would be done by a team, which
certainly would include rh's current kde maintainer.

> 3. It would close out RH from a technology

IMO, simply being in Extras != "close out RH from a technology"

> 4. It would close out KDE apps from Core.

True.

-- Rex