Sorry I though you were talking about FireFox itself rather than Fedora.
I agree that a distro should show some care about how it presents it's packages of other FLOSS projects.
(should have read your message a little more carefully)
Steve Holdoway wrote:
There's a credibility issue here that I feel you've not taken into account. Fedora is a distribution, and as such is little more than a bunch of third party packages grouped together and managed centrally. The specific software delivered by RedHat is ( in comparison to the functionality offered as a whole ) trivial. The packages involved will have to have been accepted by 'the management' for release. I believe that implies a responsibility for some level of testing and quality control.
I agree
As for who can work on a F/LOSS project, that doesn't remove the maintainers responsibility to manage the project! Yes, anybody can work on the project, and submit stuff for release, but their work should never be released to the public before being tested, in some way, shape or form.
I think that there *are* "shapes and forms" of public release that make it clear that what is being released is not tested fully and hence probably not stable. This is to enable keen FLOSS supporters to test the package for the developers... just reading your email again this probably comes down to a definition of how we define "public".
I'm going to have to stop trying to reply intelligently in the evening after a hard day over a keyboard :-/
