2008/8/21 Bjoern Tore Sund <bjorn.sund@xxxxxxxxx>: > It has now been a full week since the first announcement that Fedora had > "infrastructure problems" and to stop updating systems. Since then there > has been two updates to the announcement, none of which have modified the > "don't update" advice and noen of which has been specific as to the exact > nature of the problems. At one point we received a list of servers, but not > services, which were back up and running. > > The University of Bergen has 500 linux clients running Fedora. We average > one reinstall/fresh install per day, often doing quite a lot more. Installs > and reinstalls has had to stop completely, nightly updates have stopped, and > until the nature of the problem is revealed we don't even know for certain > whether it is safe for our IT staff to type admin passwords to our > (RHEL-based, for the most part) servers from these work stations. > > Sometimes unfortunate events happen beyond anyone's control. We understand > this as well as anyone. We trust the assurances that the infrastructure > team is working hard on resolving the matter and are greatful to them for > the job they do. So far nothing that has happened with this issue has > reflected poorly on them. > > Sadly, the same cannot be said about the Management of the Fedora project. > Their choice of complete non-disclosure is enough to eradicate any and all > confidence that Fedora is a trustworthy platform for Linux installations. > What information they have released has been deliberately vague and, > frankly, useless. For a day or two to secure things this may be a workable > strategy. For a full week, not giving the community participants any chance > whatsoever to protect themselves from threats indicated but not specified? > This is poor management and poor judgement and reflects very badly not only > on the Fedora project but on Fedora's RedHat sponsor as well. The issue is > more than serious enough and has gone on for more than long enough that > someone higher up the scale should have stepped in a long time ago and made > sure that all relevant info was released to the community. > > We strongly encourage both the Fedora management and RedHat as a Fedora > sponsor to immediately release any and all information relating to the > current infrastructure problems. I suspect that if you really want a response to this, you'll need to send it to the fedora-advisory-board http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board Jonathan. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
