> On 09 Dec 2015, at 07:14, Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> > wrote: > > > >> Gesendet: Dienstag, 08. Dezember 2015 um 16:43 Uhr >> Von: "Gregory Pittman" <gpittman at iglou.com> >> An: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net> >> Betreff: Re: [scribus] add unstable scribus to fedora repository >> >> On 12/08/2015 10:11 AM, stefan-husmann at t-online.de wrote: >>> >>> >>>> -----Original-Nachricht----- >>>> Betreff: [scribus] add unstable scribus to fedora repository >>>> Datum: 2015-12-08T13:02:54+0100 >>>> Von: "Muhamad Moghadam" <msm1365 at gmail.com> >>>> An: "scribus at lists.scribus.net" <scribus at lists.scribus.net> >>> >>>> below address is scribus repository for fedora : >>> >>>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_23/ >>> >>>> but is only stable version in repo while stable version is in official >>>> fedora repo. we need to be unstable scribus version in repository. >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I might be wrong, but my guess would be that the scribus maintainers and >>> developers have no influence on Fedora's decisions what will be taken into >>> a repository and what not. So you might ask them. >>> >>> On Arch Linux only stable versions enter official repositories. I think >>> Fedora has similar politics. >>> >> >> It's actually worse than that. Because our online docs that come with >> Scribus have a license that Fedora folks don't like, they do not want to >> have it in their repository. Of course, they might put it in one of the >> rpmfusion repos, but they don't seem to want to do that either. >> Consequently, the "current" Scribus in Fedora is 1.4.4 > > I don't buy this rationale. The documentation licence hasn't changed one bit > between 1.4.4 and 1.4.6 (or 1.5.x, for that matter). There has to be another > reason for their decision. >
I?m not considering this particular situation with Fedora. I think as a general answer to adding and improving documentation, we should have potentially hundreds writing it, not 2 or 3 partially active people. Craig
