“Jesse Keating announced on the Fedora Maintainers list that the
merge of Fedora Core and Fedora Extras into one repository will
take place this Wednesday.“The procedure is explained in the Fedora project wiki: the aim
is to have one single repository where everyone can work at
everything. Before the merge all Core packages (like the kernel or
the KDE Packages) where maintained by Red Hat employees only. After
the merge people outside of Red Hat can also work at these
packages…”