[fab] discussion topics for red hat ceo

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 11:37 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:55 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > Mark Webbink (mwebbink at redhat.com) said: 
> > > > Unless it is already in the kernel, no, it doesn't count.  Now, if we
> > > > able to push it into the upstream kernel, it would eventually be covered.
> > > 
> > > It is (and has been) in the upstream kernel. We just don't build it.
> > 
> > So, does the OIN argument apply to the upstream kernel. If so, whats
> > preventing Fedora from shipping ntfs?
> 
> It's not as simple as "it's in OIN". For example, if libmad was in OIN
> (it's not) it would still be foolish to ship it...

If OIN decides to include something like libmad it would be a failure on
the part of OIN as well as Red Hat as a member organization. If we are
going to doing additional cross checking beyond the OIN list we can but
we need to be clear whether we trust the OIN process which we did for
mono to help in the decision of including/not including NTFS in Fedora. 


Rahul