[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:39:12PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:33:41 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> 
> > My proposal was clear: start the project when somebody has volunteered
> > for each of the packages that are in @code and @base (and maybe other
> > comps groups, I don't remember exactly). And keep a page with the
> > packages maintained such as not to give wrong expectations.
> 
> Be careful with a project based on promises. Somebody might volunteer to
> maintain a package, but leave the project already prior to the first
> important security-fix due to lack of time or because of more important
> obligations. Learn from Fedora Legacy's fate. Not enough commitment from
> the target group. Too much bureaucracy for the few people who prepared
> updates [= a slow review process in bugzilla even for small patches copied
> from RHEL, lack of trust, all contributors had to wait for reviews,
> bottle-necks in the build'n'release process]. With every week a security
> update had to wait somewhere in a review ticket, some more people
> (including contributors) left the target group.

My proposal has always been to use the exact same procedures than in
fedora, so nothing like in fedora legacy.

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Pat