the danger of becoming a cargo cult

[Rahul Sundaram]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> Agreed -- but nevertheless *I* still have the impression that Red Hat 
> and Fedora developers work to much with upstream on improving the Linux 
> software stack (which is a good thing in general, but: ) and don't care 
> enough about our distribution specific stuff.

It is just different focus areas. See below.

> 
> Ubuntu is much more active in that area and thus has some interesting 
> stuff that we are already still working on (codec buddy) or have on our 
> Roadmap (say: new initsystem). 

Ubuntu is pretty much in the same position regarding codec buddy since 
the library is getting merged with upstream Gstreamer. Fedora has 
SELinux, Xen, Compiz integration etc. Let's not undersell ourselves 
unnecessarily. Focusing on one distribution repeatedly is not a good 
idea either.

Rahul