Opinion of inclusion of PackageKit-command-not-found on the desktop spin

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 12:23 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi, guys. Jesse and I would like to get an opinion from the desktop team
> on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533553 - the request to
> drop PackageKit-command-not-found from the desktop spin.
> 
> Jens went ahead and did this unilaterally and Matthias reverted it,
> which is understandable, but what we're not sure of is whether Matthias
> was worried only about the unilateral nature of Jens' move or whether
> you really want to keep command-not-found on the live spin. We'd
> probably prefer to take it out, since it's just too buggy: it's a great
> concept, but it breaks far too easily at the moment, I've seen it cause
> the yum database to be stuck for a long time and someone else on the bug
> has seen it peg out all his CPUs. It just seems too fragile to have it
> around by default yet.
> 
> But we didn't want to just get involved in a revert war, so we're trying
> to get an opinion. We're probably going to have to do an RC4 spin and
> it's going to have to be within the next few hours, that's our window
> for this change; so if you could reply in the next few hours that'd be
> great. Thanks!
> 

There's no way to have a discussion about this 'within the next few
hours'. It is weekend, and some people try to have a few hours off on
those... 

If you ask me, it is just too late to make a giant stink about a minor
thing. We could have had this discussion after the beta, but nobody
complained then. Now we are post-RC, and suddenly people propose drastic
measures with deadlines of only a few hours. 

I've asked Richard to look at doing a 0-day update to fix the more
serious problems. 

Matthias