Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

[Suren Karapetyan]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Mark wrote:
>
>> Redhat is eager to change things when they might get in trouble if
>> they have it in.. like codec support.  You guys are killing out more
>> then enough in other packages to save your own asses and you tell us
>> that you want to follow upstream.. 
>
> If a software is not included at all in Fedora, then there is no 
> modification and upstream is preserved as it is. For many others like 
> in the case of gstreamer, the extra codecs or functionality is 
> separated cleanly as plugins and we don't have to modify anything but 
> only pick and choose, what we can include. Only as a last resort, is 
> something patched and that is because it is the only legal choice at 
> that point. It is still a unfortunate divergence and adds a ongoing  
> maintenance overhead for the package maintainers. Adding more pain to 
> the problem doesn't make sense.
>
> Refer
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream
>
> i agree on that with CODE changes.
>> i disagree on that with config changes! config things are just the the
>> values set by the creators that they think are best to use. That
>> doesn't make them THE best settings out there. Don't be so freaking
>> hard on config changes! 
>
> Code and configuration cannot be easily separated like this and 
> changes always have a associated cost. Atleast in one package I 
> maintain, a very small and simple configuration change resulted in a 
> potential security hole (only in rawhide for a short while but still ..)
Not in this case.
Here we can easily separate a default checkbox from code change.
>
>> I am just trying to get a clear signal out that there is something in
>> fedora that the people using fedora want to see different
>
> It doesn't seem the right path to doing that, to me.
>
> Rahul
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