2009/8/7 R P Herrold herrold@centos.org:
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote:
Then you should not perhaps not call it 'Contrib' repository if no one that you do not personally know can add content to it.
You don't like reputational vetting and a meritocracy, or how it is run by the people in charge who have as one goal: not distributing malware. I get it. Thank you.
Hey Russ, it's open source. You can just review the spec and comment it until it's ready for release. Source could be fetched directly from upstream and patches could be verified easily.
I do not see any problem here.
The Fedora project has published very good guidelines which explain how to build high quality packages:
You may be happier there. Mind their CLA. Enjoy the food fights.
Maybe, but I like the idea of setting up a community backed Enterprise OS and CentOS is a great choice for that task.
Best Regards Marcus