Linux is not about choice [was Re: Fedora too cutting edge?]

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Jan 9 23:18:11 UTC 2008


On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:06:42 +0100
Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:

> > One issue is that most packagers maintainers in the Fedora Project
> > are not code monkeys.   
> 
> Do you have other words that would say the same, but understandable
> by a non native speaker..

He's saying that most our package maintainers are not actual code
developers, but instead folks that know and understand how to package
software.  A valuable skill set, but not the skill set needed for
developing software itself.  See other threads recently on this topic.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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