On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/16/2011 04:24 AM, John Aldrich wrote: >> On Thu October 13 2011, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: >>>> The adults also realize that Fedora already has a process pretty much >>>> exactly as Thomas described, and participate in it if they want to. >>> >> Really? What is it? How do we access this wondrous special forum on >> changing device names on a whim of a dev? > > Nothing major like this gets changed on whims. This change was done to > solve real world problems. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming > > The special forum is just linux kernel mailing list and fedora devel > list where this was broadly announced and discussed. All major features > follow the feature process > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy) and gets voted upon by > the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee which itself is a body elected > by the Fedora contributors. If you subscribe and follow fedora devel > list, you can follow all such discussions in the future. > A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Your description of the process betrays exactly what is wrong with it. It's a hobby shop for geeks with a very narrow perspective on computers and how they are actually used. Even Microsoft tests changes on *users*. Of course, Fedora is sort of a beta distribution for RedHat. Robert. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
