On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, rpjday wrote: > given that i've finished my reading of the kickstart docs, and > having previously messed with it to some extent, i'm going to wax > verbose, then i'll shut the heck up. <snip> > and that's why a lot of this raging inconsistency needs to be addressed > now. as it stands now, the aesthetics of that file are a mess, and > will make future improvements that much harder. now would be a > good time to clean it up. Preface: IANAHNBARHE -- I am not and have never been a Red Hat employee All wonderful points, and indeed worthy goals -- but a couple of observations: 1. The installed base is there, and has to be transitioned in -- any efforts should consider a compatability mode, with a deprecated form still funcitonal. 2. A lot of good ideas pass the mailing lists, but do not get summarized, and broken into easily applied 'bite-sized' pieces. Linus T takes a lot of heat for wanting small patches, over of the Linux kernel side, but it is a proven method to avoid getting list in a patch. If it cannot be broken down into a screen's worth of code, it is probably not atomic enough. Think Bugzilla to keep track of those good ideas. 3. Bugzilla is your best friend here -- preface the Subject line with 'RFE:' and select Enhancement in the dropdown, and it has a good change of being applied when the package maintainer is in a design phase. 4. There is nothing like working patches -- and Bugzilla is set up to accept uploads of patched -- what a happy circumstance. -- Russ herrold
