On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Máirín Duffy wrote:
On 10/15/2009 04:45 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
I think the problem is that we'll get yelled at on the other end:
"you're holding fedora back! What happened to latest and greatest?!"
Who would say that? We've not ever tried this, have we?
Look back in the archives preceeding the fedora core/extras merge. Look
for the complaints on versions of stuff not being new enough.
They are there.
Stability is only one variable. This is why it's better to recommend a distro
based on a full use-case rather than focus on one specific variable. Yes,
RHEL is more stable. However, there's a dozen other variables in my use case
that it does not match.
Fedora release today:
stability [=====_______________] orange
latest technology [====================] green
USER: I have no idea. Help?
CentOS (my perception):
stability [=================___] green-yellow
latest technology [=======_____________] yellow
USER: system administrator or home user wanting to offer network services or
learn in order to be able to administer RHEL.
What I want:
stability [==========__________] yellow
latest technology [================____] green-yellow
USER: enthusiastic FOSS contributor looking to eat dogfood and expend some
effort to help improve the dogfood flavor
Clearly this is an odd use of 'dogfood' I don't understand.
I don't care about a few loud angry people. There's going to be loud angry
people no matter what we do. There's loud angry people right now. We need to
pick a direction we believe in, and go with it.
You seem to want us to care about a few loud angry people. Specifically
the loud, angry people who have talked to you about fedora.
I'm not sure I can believe in Fedora as a science lab. I'd like to talk to
some people who believe in that. You said yourself and Mike aren't advocating
for it. Who is? Are we just standing in a circle beating on a poor old
scarecrow?
Show me how we slow down without overlapping the RHEL case up there? B/c
I'm not real sure there's all that much room.
-sv
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