On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 8:31 PM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> To clarify: In Fedora Core/Extras the separation was by access permissions. 
> Here
> it is based on knowledge and interests (or a lack thereof). People with zero
> knowledge and interest in "RHEL next" development will not be able to 
> contribute
> to Fedora packages (as easy as before) because the sources are no longer only
> meant for Fedora.
>

It's a bit of a divergence, but...

From my foggy memories of my early days in Fedora (I started in the
Fedora Project as a contributor officially in November 2007, but I had
been lurking and poking around for two years prior), the Core/Extras
split was slightly more complicated than that. It was true that were
was an ACL split, but there was also a CVS tree split and the Fedora
"Core" was maintained within the Red Hat Dist-CVS (though nobody
called it that back then!) and synced out to the public CVS tree for
Fedora Core. The transition to the merged CVS tree involved a lot of
complicated work from a lot of different people, and ultimately
enabled discontinuing the weird setup for Core with Fedora 7 and
transitioning to the Koji build system and Bodhi update system, which
we still use today. The transition to Dist-Git in 2009 would have been
ridiculously more difficult if that hadn't happened already.

In case anyone wants to take a trip down memory lane:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/CoreExtrasMerge




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