[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Oct 22 13:38:09 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 08:16 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Les Mikesell wrote:
> > 
> >> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >>>> A "put up or shut up" attitude has only been harmful in several
> >>>> occasions before. You cannot win volunteers with remarks like that.
> >>>
> >>> Well, seems like the community is being solely gobbled up by
> >>> individuals who are both negative and non constructive.
> >> That shouldn't be surprising for a project that doesn't value backwards
> >> compatibility, stability, or interoperability with any third party
> >> components.
> > 
> > Blame too those upstream projects who introduce these changes, fedora is
> > just a collection of all those items.  
> 
> So you'll ship any sort of breakage with no regard to the interfaces you 
> promoted last month?

Of course not. We take care to ensure that when interfaces change, every
Fedora package is updated to cope.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation




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