[fab] Re: Alternatives

[Rex Dieter]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 09:47 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:

>>> I'm still not convinced it's a good idea... it does little to encourage
>>> actually getting things merged.  And lots of forks ==> more work.

>> Yeah, but it's not *your* work, it's someone else who *wants* to do it. 
>>   I think we should foster an empowering environment, and not take a 
>> stance of "you can't do that!".
> 
> Except that bugs inevitably get misfiled or misattributed and so it is a
> significant chunk of work.

Yes, bug attribution issues need to be addressed as part of the process.

>>> While that can work, I think this puts users in the worst place as a
>>> non-mainline kernel will inevitably lag in terms of security fixes, etc.
>>> And any kernel modules that are built in Extras won't be able to be used
>>> for that kernel.
>> Well, that should be their (the users') call to make, understanding the 
>> risks/rewards for using bits from Alternatives (of CCRMA).
> 
> Explaining that clearly is not going to be easy, if it's even
> possible.  

Nobody said anything about easy...  (:

-- Rex