On 28.01.2008 20:44, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:34:44 +0530 >> Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Someone should contact the folks behind eeedora and see if we can >>> coordinate and merge back changes. Anyone interested? >> It should be the other way around really. > +1, fwiw -1, fwiw Sure, agreed, in a ideal world it would be the other way around. But this is no ideal world and "just doing you own thing/fork" is a lot easier and gives you all the credit. But that's what lead to > 500 linux distributions instead of four of five distributions flavors (like RH/Fedora/Centos, Novell, Debian/Ubuntu, Something, Else) doing things right and in a flexible way. If we want Fedora to run on most modern systems and the "Eee PCs" (do we?) then we need to help those people finding their way into the Fedora project to get their improvements back upsteam (upstream being us in this case). That helps both sides and leads to a better product and less work for everyone in the end. In my experience it only works "the other way around" if the hurdles to give improvements back are dead low -- like the are in wikipedia for example. And face it, we have high hurdles for new contributers. Without help from existing and well known long Fedora contributers its likely totally impossible to get non-upstream drivers into our kernel packages (and this is actually needed in this case). Thus someone IHO needs to do a hand holding job here, like Rahul suggested. Cu knurd _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
