Repeated Discussion Topics

= Repeated Discussion Topics =

= Introduction =

There are some discussions that come up on the Fedora mailing lists, irc channels or forums over and over again. These are topics where the issues are well understood by a number of people, but are often 're-ignited' by someone new to the discussion asking all the same questions again. After a number of times these discussions are a drain on people. This page is an attempt to document some of these discussions. This will allow people to read up on previous cycles of the discussion, gather more info and read thoughts from before before deciding if they have anything new worth re-opening the discussion.

Multilib

 * questions include: What is Multilib? Why does fedora do it? Can we drop it?
 * more information at:
 * answer: No, we have to keep doing this for now, see all the more infomation links before re-opening discussion.

All mailing lists should switch on or off 'reply-to' the list

 * Questions include: why not enable this? Why not disable this? Why not change it on all lists?
 * more information at:
 * answer: Each fedora list is free to set this value as they wish. No site wide default will happen.

Why don't we ship mp3 codecs and non free stuff?

 * Questions include: why can't we ship mp3 codecs? why can't we ship $nonfree video driver?
 * more information at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems
 * Answer: no, fedora will never ship these. Don't bother asking.