Fedora User Management (revisited)
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Tue Mar 6 19:47:24 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 19:38 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:02:10AM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 15:53 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > > On 06.03.2007 15:36, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:28:48AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > >> We've been discussing Fedora User Management in EPEL. I propose a vote,
> > > >> all maintainers are welcome to vote. The outcome is FINAL. If we chose
> > > > A vote isn't the way to go in my opinion. The number of people is not
> > > > relevant when it comes to technical issues.
> > >
> > > Agreed -- it's important that the people that make the decision know the
> > > pros and cons of the different proposed solutions. That's IMHO often not
> > > the case for complicated technical issues like this if the group that is
> > > voting is big.
> > >
> > > > Collecting people thoughts
> > > > on that matter would be interesting though, but I think having FESCo
> > > > or FPC choose would be better.
> > >
> > > +1 -- they finally have to ratify the solution anyway. But the issue
> > > nevertheless can and of course should get discussed in public.
> >
> > I'd want to know the outcome of an EPEL SIG vote before trying to decide
> > anything on this. That's what SIGs are for.
>
> The EPEL seems to be mostly against this tool, but doesn't vote
> because it considers it a Fedora issue that needs to be resolved in
> Fedora land.
Um... why? EPEL can't support it in RHEL 4 anyway. I see the two sets
being disjoint. It's not a "Fedora" problem. It's an EPEL problem.
josh
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