Plans for tomorrow's (20090529) FESCo meeting

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri May 29 13:54:43 UTC 2009



On Fri, 29 May 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Josh Boyer wrote:
>> Or perhaps a future FESCo will revist kmods.
>
> FWIW, I'd certainly vote for a proposal to allow kmods if I get into FESCo
> and may even bring such a proposal in front of the new FESCo (though IMHO
> it should not be the old regime with explicit FESCo approval for each, that
> didn't make any sense, instead there should be no restrictions other than a
> license compatible with that of the kernel, and of course the restrictions
> applying to all packages).

and if I get elected to fesco I'll make sure to counter any vote for kmods 
with a vote against them.

kmods are a disaster area and proof of this can be found in the near 
constant stream of "bugs" related to people's systems broken by them in 
terms of depsolving for them.

-sv




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