kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Sun Mar 30 12:43:11 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 15:02 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > I understand that.  I wish it could just be accepted as a package like
> > any other.  I don't quite see why the fact that it's an alternate
> > kernel is such a big deal.  Considering the social and political
> > issues, I don't see that this should be decided solely from a

Not everyone agrees that there are social and political issues to begin
with, Alexandre.

> Well the technical standpoints can't be dismissed. Instead of going in 
> circles, my suggestion would be to escalate this to Fedora Board/FESCo 
> or otherwise just submit the package. Either that package submission 
> will be stalled with no sponsor willing to approve it or Fedora 
> Board/FESco will step in and make a decision. I will let them worry 
> about the consistency of that decision with the existence of kernel-xen.

Feel free to escalate it to FESCo at the next meeting before you even
submit it.

josh




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