Drunk on power: FC1 and before.... [was: A Heads-Up: moving all FC3 bugs to "needinfo"]

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Jul 13 02:51:16 UTC 2006


Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> Matthew Miller (mattdm at mattdm.org) said: 
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 06:16:37PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Red Hat
> > > Linux was a Red Hat product, sold and supported; if we're going to close
> > > out bugs in that, we should really point to the official Red Hat, um,
> > > 'descendants.'
> > 
> > Yeah, but ignoring the business side (which I recognize as an important
> > side), CentOS is often the best choice for many people stuck on RHL 9 or
> > 7.3. And my goal is really to do the best thing for the people who went to
> > all the trouble to report a bug.
> 
> Yeah, but really, these could very well be bugs from people who paid Red
> Hat money. The more I think about it, I feel it's best that someone from
> Red Hat take the task to do this, as it's really our responsiblity.

BTW, if someone on the board level hasn't said it before, we really do
appreciate all the work you're putting into this - it's just that RH
should really take the pain for the old RHL bugs.

Bill




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