[fab] JBJ considered harmfull

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Tue Aug 8 20:02:25 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 13:30 -0400, Michael Tiemann wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 12:17 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 13:10 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > > 
> > > Here are the questions that we *must* answer.  If internal engineering at 
> > > Red Hat is not willing to answer them, then the august body that is the 
> > > Fedora Board must at least take a position.
> > > 
> > > 1. Who is the upstream provider of RPM?  Is it rpm.org?  jbj?  Red Hat?  
> > > Fedora?
> > > 
> > > 2. If we are not the upstream of RPM -- and I'd argue we're not -- is it 
> > > our intention to reunite with the RPM codebase at some point in the 
> > > future, or not?
> > > 
> > > 3. If we are not going to rejoin with upstream RPM -- and I'd argue we're
> > > not -- then we have, in fact, forked RPM.  Therefore, what's the name of
> > > the new project, who is the upstream (Red Hat? Fedora?) and how do we act
> > > as an effective upstream for this project?
> > > 
> > > We will continue to deal with these unpleasant issues until we have the 
> > > courage to resolve them.
> > > 
> > > Again, just my $0.02.
> > 
> > Gets my $0.02 as well.
> 
> And mine!  Greg, do you accept PayPal?

I'm anteing up too.

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